CaptainStudly

CaptainStudly t1_j1qqglk wrote

HomeServe exterior line coverage is 100% worth it. My main exit line developed a hole, let your imagination run wild with that. Filed a claim, guy came out with an endoscope and found the hole, his company evaluated options, and within something like three weeks my drain was fixed, all covered by the policy.

Edit to add: as far as I can tell this insurance works the way insurance is supposed to work, by pooling risk. You look at it and wonder how they don't get killed by adverse selection, and I still sorta wonder that considering that it's not compulsory. But if you step back and look at how we finance fixing a city full of 100-year-old drains, the answer is everybody pays $10/mo and we fix them as they break.

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CaptainStudly t1_iyl2uii wrote

I've felt for a while that the city basically needs to be placed into receivership, which immediately forces the question of who should administer it. And apparently our entire system of government says it should be federal prosecutors, by the least efficient mechanism imaginable. So rolling that into their life satisfaction strategy should probably go in op's todo pile.

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