A personal tenant insurance policy is a policy designed to protect tenants or renters of a home, condo, or apartment. Like a homeowner’s personal policy, it is not designed to cover short-term rentals through home-sharing services like Airbnb. Therefore, it is not a suitable replacement for or enhancement to Airbnb’s host protection insurance program.
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Insurance for Airbnb rentals
If you occasionally rent your home or condo to guests through Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway or other home-sharing services, you need a customized rental insurance policy to protect yourself and your property against unforeseen events and third-party liability.
What does Airbnb insurance cover?
A complete insurance policy for Airbnbs rental properties through 2autoinsurance typically includes:
- Commercial General Liability (2autoinsurance) Insurance: Likewise known as ‘slip-and-fall’ insurance, 2autoinsurance protects against claims alleging third-party property damage or bodily damages; for instance, a customer visits the premises and slips, falls, or is injured. 2autoinsurance may deliver financial coverage for third-party medical costs and legal fees if you are named in a lawsuit.
- Commercial Property Insurance: Commercial property insurance protects against physical flops or damages to your property and its ranges due to an external tragedy, such as a fire, theft, or destruction. It typically includes coverage for the property’s physical assets, such as your furniture, personal belongings, and any electronics stolen or damaged.
- Rental Income: This type of coverage protects if you lose rental income due to damages to your property because of a fire, flood, or other insured perils.
- Loss Assessment Coverage: Condo owners share ownership and responsibilities with other individual unit owners for the condo building’s common areas, such as a swimming pool or fitness center. Although your condominium establishment may have acceptable coverage, loss review to range helps protect you if a claim is made against the condominium corporation that transcends its insurance policy boundary.
- Contingent Unit Scope: Contingent unit scope covers your condo unit. In cases where your condominium corporation has no insurance on your team, lacks sufficient coverage, or the corporation’s policy does not cover the peril, adding contingent unit coverage to your policy may protect you from those impairments.
Cyber Liability Insurance: Cyber liability insurance could cover costs associated with cybercrime involving your technology systems and customers’ data. Cyber liability covers information costs, legal costs, and risk management fees if your data is compromised due to a cyber seizure (such as phishing).
What protection does Airbnb provide?
All Airbnb hosts receive two types of coverage from Airbnb:
- Host protection insurance: Airbnb’s host protection insurance may cover your legal responsibility for bodily injury to guests or others and damage to property belonging to your guests. It provides liability coverage for a host’s legal responsibility for third-party bodily injuries. It may also cover your legal responsibility for damage to common areas such as building lobbies and neighbouring properties caused by one of your guests. It does not cover injuries or damages resulting from an intentional act by one of your guests, loss of income, or damage to your dwelling or belongings. Airbnb’s host protection insurance is subject to policy terms, conditions, and exclusions.
- Host guarantee protection: Airbnb’s host guarantee protection is property damage coverage. It provides coverage for damages caused to your dwelling and belongings if they are damaged by a guest or others they invite to visit your home. Airbnb’s host guarantee program is not an insurance policy, and not all property damage caused by guests may be covered. It also does not provide protection for third-party bodily injuries to your guests. Airbnb advises its hosts to purchase additional insurance to protect their properties against third-party damages.
What risks do Airbnb hosts face?
Airbnb’s coverage limit might sound a lot, but when you consider the cost of legal fees, settlements, home repairs, and property replacement in the event of damages or a lawsuit, those costs can easily extend beyond Airbnb’s coverage limit. If it does, you are responsible to pay additional costs and may need to dip into your savings. That poses a tremendous risk to your financial health.
You can help mitigate the risks you face as an Airbnb host by:
- Ensuring you are operating within all federal, provincial, and municipal regulations
- If your short-term rental property is a condo, ensure you comply with the condo building’s policies on renting out your unit
- Purchase short-term rental insurance to augment the coverage Airbnb provides
- Charge your guests a security deposit to pay for any minor damages they create
- Furnish your dwelling with durable, easy-to-clean furnishings
- Don’t leave expensive or treasured items in your dwelling when renting it out
- Proactively perform any maintenance and repairs in or on your property (an insurance policy is not a maintenance contract)
- Install a home monitoring security system and consider installing smart locks and a noise monitoring device and advise your guests in your Airbnb listing of their existence
Common claims scenarios
Problem: Your property is damaged by a fire that makes it uninhabitable while repairs are being made, causing you to cancel future reservations that results in a loss of income.
Outcome: Your rental insurance coverage may pay for the income you lost because of the fire and while repairs to your unit are underway.
Problem: Your condominium corporation is sued because of an insured peril that occurred in the building’s swimming pool area. Although it is considered a common area and the corporation is insured, the lawsuit’s outcome exceeds the amount of coverage limit the corporation has. As a result, you (and other unit owners) are required to pay the difference.
Outcome: Your loss assessment coverage may pay for your portion of the settlement the corporation must pay to the claimant.
Problem: One of your short-term rental guests trips, falls, and is injured while entering or exiting your dwelling. They suffer a broken arm and decide to sue you for damages.
Outcome: Your commercial general liability coverage may pay for your guest’s medical expenses as well as your legal defence fees.
Frequently asked questions
Will a personal homeowner insurance policy cover my Airbnb rental?
No. It is unlikely that your existing home insurance company will cover the cost of third-party bodily injuries or property damages. You should inform your current insurer of your intention to list your property on Airbnb and any other home-sharing website, or your insurer may void your home insurance policy entirely for breach of contract. If your home insurance policy is cancelled by an insurance company, getting home insurance from another insurer could prove to be difficult as well as expensive.
What is the difference between Airbnb host protection insurance and a personal tenant insurance policy?
Airbnb’s host protection insurance is automatically applied to all Airbnb hosts. It may cover your legal responsibility for bodily injury to guests or others and damage to property belonging to your guests. It may provide up to US$1 million in liability coverage for a host’s legal responsibility for third-party bodily injuries, subject to policy terms, conditions, and exclusions.
How are claims made by Airbnb hosts handled?
Whenever an insured (that’s you) submits a claim to 2autioinsurance claims team, we move immediately to report the claim to your insurance company and represent you by ensuring you get a fast response. Although we do not decide what the payout will be or if your claim will be honoured (that’s up to the insurance company), we do go to bat for our customers by ensuring they are informed every step of the way. One of the biggest problems with ensuring your claim is settled to your satisfaction is having the right customized coverages protecting your property at the get-go.
Talk to one of our licensed brokers when you’re setting up your policy or renewing it. They can guide you through the process, answer your questions, and ensure you have the right coverages in place, so you don’t have to worry if something goes wrong and you need to file a claim.
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