AUSKY strongly recommends all our landlords purchase landlord insurance for their investment properties. Landlord insurance is a policy designed to covers you against events such as loss of rent due to a tenant’s rent default, the theft or burglary of any belongings you have leased to your tenants, and natural disasters such as storms. Additionally, you can get insured for accidental or malicious damage to the structure of your property.
It pays to remember that each landlord policy is different. Some policies will cover you for all the events listed below, while others will only cover you for a selection of scenarios. Always review your Product Disclosure Statement (PDS). That way you can be sure the product you are thinking of purchasing covers the events you want protection against.
Loss of rental income
Contents
Building
Protects you from loss of rental income as a result of scenarios such as those listed below.
Provides cover for:
Absconding tenant
Defaulting tenant
Failure to give vacant possession
Death of a tenant
Hardship
Untenantable property
Prevention of access
Rent reduction
Protects those furnishings you forget, like curtains, carpets, blinds and light fittings.
Provides cover for:
Tenant Damage
Flood
Storm or rainwater
Escape of liquid
Fire (including bushfire) or explosion
Break-in vandalism or theft
Pet damage
Scorching
Impact
Earthquake or tsunami
Glass breakage
Lightning
Oil leakage from any heater
Electric motor burnout
Riot, civil commotion or public disturbance
Protects your building against loss or damage caused by tenants, their family or their invited guests.