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January 16

Camp Fire recovery rebuilding with bigger homes in Paradise

PARADISE — Paradise homes are getting bigger during the rebuild. Around 60 percent of the homes under construction in the town are larger in square footage than the home they are replacing, according to permit and property data collected by the Chico Enterprise-Record and Chico State and analyzed by Chico State’s geographic information specialist Peter Hansen. Before the fire, homes in Paradise...

January 15

What You Need to File a Homeowners Insurance Claim

After the storm has cleared or the fire has died down, your sense of relief at surviving may quickly give way to a sense of shock when you gaze at the charred or battered wreckage that used to be your home and all the stuff inside it. If there's any consolation, it's that you have a homeowners insurance policy that will help to make you whole again. But before that can happen, you have to file a...

January 10

How to Figure Out How Much Homeowners Insurance You Need

One thing to keep in mind about homeowners insurance is that if you're like most people, you probably don't have enough coverage. "Whenever we do a survey in a disaster area, we generally find that two-thirds of the people whose homes are a total loss are severely underinsured," explains Amy Bach, an attorney and executive director of United Policyholders, a California-based nonprofit consumer...

December 28

Check deductibles on homeowner insurance

There’s nothing wrong with a high deductible, as long as you keep enough funds in savings to pay it. Like a spare tire or a flashlight, homeowner’s insurance is one of those things that you don’t really want until you need it. Now, even when you need to pay for damage to your home, you may not want to use your homeowner's coverage. And, if you do want your insurer to pay, you might be surprised...