Renters Insurance

Covers your belongings and your liability in a unit you do not own. Your landlord's policy covers the building, not your things.

Renters Insurance by state

Insurance is regulated state by state. What a policy must include, what it may exclude, and who writes it all change at the state line.

Buying guides
How to choose an insurance agent
Anyone can quote you a price. The differences that matter are who the agent represents, how they are paid, and what they write down.
Coverage explained
Auto insurance explained: what each coverage actually pays for
An auto policy is six separate coverages sold as one product. Most of them have nothing to do with your car. Here is what each one does.
Coverage explained
Homeowners insurance explained: the six parts of the policy
A home policy is six coverages, and the first one silently sets the size of three others. Here is how the structure works and where it goes wrong.
Life events
Insurance when you marry
Two households becoming one changes more than the address. What to combine, what to check first, and the free thing almost everyone forgets.

Talk to someone who has to write it down

Every agency in this directory has agreed to present an adequately protected option before a price-driven one, and to document in writing anything you decline. That is a meaningfully different conversation from the one that starts with a monthly figure.

Find a certified agent for renters insurance

Renters Insurance by state

Reading on renters insurance

Talk to someone who has to write it down