Ezra Croft has never filed an insurance claim, and his house in Raleigh, North Carolina isn’t close to a stormy coastline or a fire-prone forest.
So Croft was surprised when his annual homeowner’s insurance premium shot up to $1,600, or $700 dollars more than he was paying just a couple of years ago.
“I’m a middle income guy,” Croft says. “Don’t make a ton of extra money. At this point I’m teetering on the point of inaffordability.”
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