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Lynette Hoag • Apr 26, 2021

How to Get the Full Value of Your Car

A car is one of the most valuable assets you have. Disagree? Get into a wreck and find yourself without it for months or weeks. Turns out, you need it like air. When it comes to the value of your car in your day to day and the actual cash value of your car, you may discovery that the insurance company has a much lower price than you do. You may even discover that though the damage to your car is minor, it cannot be repaired.


You may not have considered how much you would get back from your insurance company if you totaled your car. But the way an insurance company values your car is very different your the Blue Book value or even the amount you could get back if you sold your car to an interested stranger.  How do insurance companies value your car? They have their own internal proprietary ways of limiting the value of your car and making it difficult to break even with the payout. If you have an older model car, you may not recovery what you believe it is worth. But if you have a luxury, custom or newer model car, most insurance policies have a loophole that helps you recover the real value of your vehicle.  That's right! A provision call Appraisal is designed to work in favor of you, the insured. Call today to find out how! 

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