Hey Everyone, I had a strange occurrence about signing up for term life insurance. Zander scheduled a person to come out to my home to draw blood from me, despite me telling them that I would like to come out to one of their affiliated locations. When I declined the offer a second time, I left a message for Zander, who did not call me back. Next, I reach out to Zander again and the agent tells me that they would like to make it more convenient for me, as they do not have locations nearby. Turns out, they have a location 10 minutes away, as ExamOne is affiliated with Quest Diagnostics. When I call them, they are strangely indifferent on the phone and are telling me that they will do a full 45 minute physical. When I asked if the results will be shared with my primary physician, they do not give me a straight up answer. When reading up on it, it seems like they do not even publish the results for the patient online. What are your thoughts?

We live in a townhome in Florida with an HOA. For context, we do have an HO3 policy. After Hurricane Milton, we sustained damage to the roof of our unit, which caused leakage into our garage. We notified the HOA after seeing the damage, and we were advised that when there is a “named storm”, the individual owners are responsible for paying for roof repairs. The HOA coordinated repair with the company that services our roofs, and we were advised we could pay out of pocket or file a claim with our own individual insurance company. The amount is $2000, but our hurricane deductible is much larger, so we will elect to pay out of pocket IF it’s accurate that HOA is off the hook. We have a copy of our bylaws but cannot see where we are responsible for this repair. All other times where there have been roof leaks, the HOA covers repairs. We asked the board members to point to where in our bylaws that it states we are responsible, but they refuse to answer. Does anyone have any insight? I will also post this to the HOA sub. Thank you!

I have State Farm and pay about $750 monthly for my several cars and teenager. Every carrier I quoted with (the major ones that everyone knows) All wanted $1,100 or more per month for exact same coverage. These people are crazy!!! The $750 I think is already too high. 3 cars, 1 truck, 2 adults and a teen. No accidents, tickets, or claims for anyone, ever. Going to try a local broker tomorrow. Maybe they can help. Are other people seeing the same crazy differences when getting a quote? Any good experiences using a broker and anything I should watch out for? Never used an independent broker.

Hey everyone! I currently have metlife for my one dog and want to add my newly adopted dog. They tried selling me on their preventative but I feel like when I get a new quote on their site the information is different than what was being pushed to me over the phone. These are the pictures I have. She said that all my dogs flea and tick would be covered for the year after my deductible but if I'm reading this correctly I would only get a payout of $75 for the year. Is that correct? That doesn't seem worth it at all. Also, She was actually so pushy I'm also considering switching insurances completely.. I've looked into AKC, Spot, and embrace but I need one that covers potential foreign object ingestion and AKC only has once in a lifetime which to me is crazy. My pup picks up stuff on a walk, chews on sticks, etc I'm almost about to put a muzzle to be safe. Thankfully nothing bad so far, but after my aunts experience of her dog swallowing an Avocado pit I want to make sure I have one that covers this just in case.

Recently, my cat had to be rushed to the ER due to urinary blockage (FLUTD) , I submitted his bills, which rounded up to 7k, but the insurance denied it as pre-existing. * Pet had not prior diagnosis or sign of illness in the past with a clean record * Vet stated that he had issues peeing in an instance of stress due to construction and not due to FLUTD, and recommended Feliway Diffusers * Vet also wrote a letter for me specifying that the symptoms were not related to pre-existing FLUTD Now at the time that he started to show symptoms of blockage and straining the policy was already active and the waiting period was over. Am I crazy for thinking that them using past symptoms that were specified to not be related to deny my claim is actually wrong, and this emergency should fall under coverage?

Healthypaws is raising our premium to $35/month/cat, have had general cat insurance but almost nothing has been covered - their issues (cat herpes early on, recently anal gland stuff) is hardly covered or not at all. Looking at catastrophic/accident only insurance - is this worth? Do you have a company you like/hate less than all the other companies? Looked at PetsBest which is suspiciously inexpensive at $6/month vs aspcapetinsurance at $22/month for the same coverage. Any help is appreciated!

So our Lemonade pet insurance is starting to be somewhat outrageous - $150 (80% Preventative) and growing at 7 years old. Healthy dog currently, but when we first got it, visited quite a few times. Lumps but not cancerous. Etc. Pet insurance ALSO does not always work. Lemonade also does not have a straight-forward appeal process when one of their staff misunderstands an issue and mis-categorizes it and denies a claim. I'm wondering if it makes sense to just start a savings account and put in $150/month into it? (And grow it by 25% yearly - the same rate that Lemonade has been increasing)

My Simple IRA is with Edward Jones through my employer. My advisor, a glorified used car salesman, claims that it’s not fair to compare my returns with him to either the SPTMI or my own Roth IRA. His reasoning is that because it sees contributions twice a month, there’s always recent contributions that have not grown which makes the return seem lower. The account is only two years old and has about 10k in it. It shows about 12% growth for 2024 while the SPTMI and my ROTH IRA (30k, maxed early in the year, 80/20 VTSAX/ VTIAX) showed about 24%. Does his explanation hold any weight? My returns over the last rolling year are negative by <1% while my ROTH is up over 13% still just because of how strong last year was. Appreciate anyone’s input!

Their advertising is downright misleading. Your premium does not go up as your dog ages. Sure, it does not, they find other mumbo jumbo to achieve the same thing. My premium has gone up 40% over the first two years (our boy was signed up as soon as we brought him home). Before deciding on Trupanion I did fairly extensive modeling based on real time quotes from them and their competitors. Trupanion came marginally ahead IN THE LONG TERM despite having substantially higher upfront premiums. The price increases I have experienced make the previous analysis null and void. I am looking for an alternative. Could people. With long term experience (ideally senior dogs) comment on possible alternatives? Thanks

Location: Texas Mind you we have been a returning customer for the last 9 years to the same salesman at the same dealership. He has always gone above and beyond with taking care of us with exceptional customer service to the point of even driving 2hrs to deliver our last leased vehicle in our driveway. So now the dilemma; we recently returned 2022 lease and signed a new lease for a 2025 at Infiniti dealership February 1st. After all the paperwork is completed we get keys for 2025 vehicle and drive home. Fast forward to February 22nd I see the reoccurring payment of $975 from the old 2022 leased vehicle. Then on 26th another one for $1130 for new 2025 lease which was expected. Wife contacts salesman and says he will look into it with Infiniti finance department. After a couple of days he tells us that Infiniti finance for the old lease had not yet received dealership check for the vehicle payoff, then proceeds to tell us after they receive it we would be receiving a reimbursement check in the mail “around” the same amount of $975 from old lease that we are no longer in possession of. Wife contacts Infiniti finance and they basically tell us that the dealership is at fault and it’s out of their hands. Now we are in April and salesman telling us he will get with GSM, but GSM is somehow always busy (out of office at auctions, yadda yadda). We have yet to receive the “check” or any further information on the matter from dealership. This our 4th vehicle through this dealership with no issues at all and now this. What route do I take? Anyone else ever have this problem? Do I take legal action over $975?