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Increase in insurance

I asked my insurance agent to find me a cheaper rate.
Today, agent said other carriers didn't want me because I have old building and no updates in past 15 years. WTF.
The premium is a month's worth of my rent. Should I self insure as Glenn suggested?
If this property has been milked to death by a relative and your doing the same, then at some point you risk not being able to insure it. Real property needs regular maintenance in order to be insurable and given where it is it may not even be transferable.
 
I asked my insurance agent to find me a cheaper rate.
Today, agent said other carriers didn't want me because I have old building and no updates in past 15 years. WTF.
The premium is a month's worth of my rent. Should I self insure as Glenn suggested?

If this property has been milked to death by a relative and your doing the same, then at some point you risk not being able to insure it. Real property needs regular maintenance in order to be insurable and given where it is it may not even be transferable.
Take less trips to Disney Land and Hawaii and spend one year working on properties and staying focused on business. Thats how you do it . The maintenance and repairs will only get worse and worse with each year that passes.
 
If this property has been milked to death by a relative and your doing the same, then at some point you risk not being able to insure it. Real property needs regular maintenance in order to be insurable and given where it is it may not even be transferable.
A lot of properties in SF are old and hasn't been updated. If not broken, no need to fix. Besides I rent the commercial in as is condition and tenant should update according to their business.
 
A lot of properties in SF are old and hasn't been updated. If not broken, no need to fix. Besides I rent the commercial in as is condition and tenant should update according to their business.
That's wonderful Fernando but the insurance company doesn't give a s**t. The want to insure properties that are maintained. If they aren't maintained their risk goes up and in this current climate here in California, they are giving the beaters the pass. Plus, you made a previous claim due to lack of maintenance which means you're dead to most of them. Good luck and giddyup.
 
I heard Pennsylvania has among worst roads. Why does Penn need so much aid from Federal government to fix their infrastructure.
CA has high gas taxes and are suppose to fix the roads. Maybe Penn should raise their gas taxes.
we already have the highest gas tax in the country. most of pa is rural, those people don't count, maga country.
I asked my insurance agent to find me a cheaper rate.
Today, agent said other carriers didn't want me because I have old building and no updates in past 15 years. WTF.
The premium is a month's worth of my rent. Should I self insure as Glenn suggested?
yea self insure, and make your tenants have fire insurance for themselves & you. have a fire insurance rental cost escalation clause in each tenant's rental agreement. hey glen, what do you think?
 
we already have the highest gas tax in the country. most of pa is rural, those people don't count, maga country.

yea self insure, and make your tenants have fire insurance for themselves & you. have a fire insurance rental cost escalation clause in each tenant's rental agreement. hey glen, what do you think?
He doesn't have any money, how is he going to self-insure?
 
A old dilapidated Class- D Commercial with multi units rented "AS IS" on repairs and maintenance and each tenant passing all repairs and maintenance on to the next tenant. All this while wanting to raised rents each year and expecting to have a building that can be sold in the future at a profit.

This is a interesting scenario but wont work in a highly Litigious State or worse in the Bay Area California of where slum lords have been imprisoned if someone gets hurt or killed on the property. Sounds like time for you to retire and go into something that doesn't require any property management skills.
 
I heard Pennsylvania has among worst roads.
I criss-crossed the state in 2010,2011, and 2015. Their roads are about average of the ones I was on. Illinois OTOH had orange barrels everywhere all three trips. Kentucky will win no prize and Tennessee from AR to Nashville a few years back was a gloomy trip along I-40. Heavy traffic and the trees had grown heavy on each side. New Mexico was never going to make "Roadmaker of the Year" either.
 
we already have the highest gas tax in the country. most of pa is rural, those people don't count, maga country.

yea self insure, and make your tenants have fire insurance for themselves & you. have a fire insurance rental cost escalation clause in each tenant's rental agreement. hey glen, what do you think?
He cant do that he has a Big Mortgage on it and lender requires Insurance . Also California is not a "as is" on certain repairs and maintenance like Roofs, Main electrical , plumbing etc. He does not have Tripe Net Lease with Wal Mart. He has poorly written hand filled leases made to high risk poor tenants, One operating as a Fortune Teller , a Taco Vendor, calling themselfs a restaurant a insurance broker who has not paid rent in a long time and possible a tenants also few living in the building. I have no idea how to resurrect his problems . I got out of Slum Lording after Uncle Billy and I sold our Dead Hooker Motels in 1985. :)
 
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