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1. Folks who buy houses in areas which have full-time fire service attract cheaper quotes than folks who stay in neighborhoods with only a volunteer fire service. Besides, the distance of your house to a fire hydrant and a fire station determines your rates. The truth is: the closer your home is to firefighters and their equipment, the lower your quotes will be.

2. Don't buy a house in an area that has a high crime rate. Living in those neighborhoods costs you a lot in home insurance. Two houses just a street apart could be grouped into different risk zones on insurers' map. It is most advisable to ask an agent before you eventually pay for a house. The home on the adjacent street could be zoned into a low crime area while yours is zoned to a high crime area.

3. Find out how close the house is from the nearest police station. If you reside very near a police station you'll have a lower risk of burglary, for example, and insurers give you lower rates if you're a better risk.

4. Although this doesn't touch your home insurance policy directly I'll include it since it determines what you'd have to pay for before you'll be considered to have adequate coverage for your home.

You'd be expected to get flood insurance at an additional $400 annually if you have a home in a flood-prone location. Every mortgagor will expect that you get it if your house is in a flood-prone region. You can such unnecessary expense by buying a house in a region that isn't suffering such.

And now to something that will always help even though it has nothing to do with your location...

You can reduce your Chicago Illinois home insurance costs by getting and comparing quotes from at least three reputable quotes sites.

Here are my favorite pages for home insurance quotes...

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Chimezirim Odimba writes on insurance.

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