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Home Insurance
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Things Your Homeowner’s Insurance Policy May Not Cover
Every homeowner needs homeowner’s insurance. We all know that it is an essential protection to safeguard your home, your property, and the future prosperity of your family. Sadly though,...
How to Stay Warm When the Power Goes Out
It’s been a cold and blustery winter, and we may have to wait even longer for warmer weather to arrive. It’s been a season of high winds, record snowfall, and plunging temperatures, it was...
What You Might Not Know About Pet Insurance
When we think about pet insurance, we typically think of it in terms of medical emergencies. Those moments when a pet is hurt or seriously sick and requires expensive veterinarian care. We...
Home Heating Hazards
When the mercury dips like it did near the end of January, people will do almost anything to warm up. This is especially true when your normal heating solutions won’t do the trick. Whether...
Social Media Safety: Don’t Share More Than you Mean to
Social media is a fantastic way to stay connected to the people in your life. It lets you trade jokes with your friends while waiting in line at the grocery store, talk to a sympathetic...
Keep Your Pets Safe This Winter
With the winter months upon us, it’s important we take extra care to protect the most vulnerable members of our families – our pets. While your puppy or kitten may have a natural fur coat...
Celebrate your New Year’s Eve Safely
New Year’s Eve can be a lot of fun. A great time to get together with friends or family, blow off steam from a busy holiday season, and set an optimistic tone for the year to come. That is...
The Fortnite mobile craze is a Hacker’s Delight
Do you enjoy video games or have someone in your household who does? If so, it’s more than likely you’ve heard of Fortnite. It’s unavoidable in the gaming scene. Fortnite is currently one...
Don’t be hit with this 2 Factor Scam this Holiday Season
By now, most of us are familiar with 2-factor authentication. It’s a simple, but important, security precaution for your most sensitive online accounts such as your email and personal...
Lighting up your Home Safely this Holiday Season
Whether you just plan on hanging a string of classic white lights over the eaves or have full-on Griswold style ambitions on your mind of transforming your home into a winter wonderland,...
“Is Anybody Home?” How to Protect your Home During an Extended Absence
Whether you’re finally going to backpack across Europe, or on a temporary work assignment out of town, whenever you leave your home for an extended period you need to prepare. Unoccupied...
How to Properly Store your Lawn Mower for the Winter
The chilly months of fall might bring the "joys” of raking and cleaning leaves out of the gutter, but there is one upside -- you can finally put the lawn mower away for the season! You...
Picking the Right Halloween Costume for your Child
It’s the spookiest time of the year! If you have kids, chances are they’re already getting excited not just for candy and spooky movies, but for the chance to dress up and strut their...
How to Void Your Home Insurance and Get Hit with Nasty Surprises
Home insurance is your first line of defense against disaster. It’s a fundamental part of home ownership, and while it may not be mandatory, almost every homeowner recognizes the value of...
Protecting Your Home During a Thunderstorm
When we think about protecting our homes from the elements, we tend to focus on the most extreme events -- hurricanes, blizzards, golf ball sized hail stones crashing into your roof, that...
Should you consider pet insurance?
Whether you’ve just brought home a brand new mewling kitten, adopted a rescue dog, have a bunny that's two years, or noticed your faithful friend starting to slow down in her old age, you...
Window Security for Your Home
When considering home security, windows are an obvious weak point. While it is true that these large panes of breakable glass can quickly become a liability when your home is cased by a...
The (not so) Grand Old Home
There is something to be said for a classic, older home. Whether you are looking for stately elegance, or just love the old neighbourhood it’s in, you might decide that an older home is...
Renovating Your Home Without Becoming the Neighbourhood Pariah
Renovating your home may be exciting for you, but to your neighbours, it's a different story. Talk to your next door buddy while grabbing the morning paper about your plans to put in a new...