What a nightmare: You come home to find water covering your floors after a burst pipe or hose has spilled hundreds of gallons of water into your home. You may think that a leaky pipe in the kitchen or bathroom is the most common cause of water damage, but it isn’t. Here’s a quick Q&A […]

As your personal Farmers agent, helping you find good value for your Auto insurance dollar is one of my top priorities. If it has been awhile since you looked at Farmers’ wide range of Auto discounts, check out some options that may be available to you now:
Multiple lines. We want to reward you for placing […]

You want your kids to have a backyard that they enjoy, but be careful about letting it become an “extreme sports” zone. Before you install a trampoline for the kids or build a half pipe for your budding skateboarder, consider the dangers of a “rad” yard. Even if you’re putting in traditional playground equipment such […]

I read something recently that surprised me: Natural disasters around the world increased by 20 percent last year. We don’t know what Mother Nature has in store for us this year, but here’s my advice:
Take steps now to prepare for whatever a natural or man-made disaster might do to your home.
Do you know what it […]

Fact: Every 77 seconds, fire strikes a home somewhere in the United States.
To help prevent fire from destroying your home or harming your loved ones, I want to share some fire safety information with you. You already know about changing your smoke detector batteries regularly and keeping fire extinguishers on every floor. But here are […]

Are you planning to find new homes for your old stuff by having a garage or yard sale this spring? Be sure to consider safety issues, so theft or an accident won’t wipe out whatever you make on your sales:

Arrange sale items so that there is adequate space for buyers to move around - piling stuff […]

We don’t have to live in New Orleans for our community to face the threat of flooding. Why? Flooding is a natural disaster that occurs in all 50 states.
Your home doesn’t need to be submerged up to the rooftop to sustain significant damage. Consider the impact that just a few inches of water would have […]

What’s your bank account number? Your insurance policy number? Can you list all the items of value in your home? Imagine trying to answer such questions after your financial records have been destroyed by fire or natural disaster.Thanks to technology, it’s now easier than ever to organize and store a large volume of information on […]

Disasters come in many forms. In the Midwest, they come in the form of tornadoes and snowstorms. On the West Coast, they arrive in the form of earthquakes and on theEast Coast in form of Hurricanes. As a matter of fact, a disaster can take any shape or form, it can be a lightning strike […]