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The single best way to shop your homeowners insurance is…

tony • March 19, 2017

As homeowners, most all of us have been there.

Your mortgage payment goes up for some unknown reason so you call your mortgage company. Your mortgage company informs you that your insurance has increased and they needed to adjust your payment to make up the shortfall in your escrow account AND adjust your payment to ensure there are ample funds in the escrow account to cover the insurance renewal next year.

You’re not certain if you should be upset with your mortgage company or your insurance agent for not notifying you of the increase – but there’s no doubt you’re one unhappy homeowner!  And since it’s easier to switch insurance companies than it is to switch mortgage companies – you roll up your sleeves and begin looking for better insurance rates.

You call the first agent – they say they’ll call you back later today and take down some details.  They never call.

You call the second agent – it takes 20 minutes and the quote is about the same as what you’re currently paying.

Disillusioned, you take to the internet for help…

You visit the first website and spend 10 minutes filling in details for one of the big insurance companies to give you a quote – turns out it’s about the same.

You find another website that promises instant quotes from multiple companies – it looks legit so you spend another 10 minutes filling in forms, including your contact details – you click the submit button… nothing.  No instant quotes.

For the next month, you get completely bombarded with phone calls and emails.  You realize you plugged your details into a lead generation website and your details have been sold to multiple insurance companies.  You consider changing your phone number.  After an hour of wasted time and a month of being hounded by salespeople, you acquiesce and decide to stay with your current agent.

Sounds familiar – perhaps partially familiar?

What if you could plug your details into a secure environment and insurance companies could provide quotes but they couldn’t see your contact details unless you liked their quote?

What if once you plugged in your details, your profile was saved so you never had to do it again?

What if, because your details were saved, you could shop for homeowners insurance again in the future with just the click of a button?

At Chrinco, we’re building this technology – technology that we believe will change an industry.  Technology that will make our platform the single best way to shop for homeowners insurance.

If you’d like to join us for beta testing, would like to receive updates on the release of our industry changing technology or would like to provide insight as to what we could do to improve our product, let us know!  We’d love for you to walk with us on this journey as we change an industry! Click here to join us.

Want more tips on ways to save and shop for homeowners insurance?  Join the Chrinco.com community and follow us as we not only provide insurance tips to consumers but also are developing a new way to shop for insurance.  Join the journey that we believe will change an industry.  Chrinco.com – Insurance Simplified.

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