Now if you have been reading a few of my last writings you would know we had been finalising our house insurance here in Brisbane so we are covered for home and contents insurance.

Here it is here if you hadn’t read it, House Insurance in Brisbane.

This is just a final word until next year when we do the rounds again trying to find the best quote for the home again and try to save a bit more money.

The letter arrived in the mail this morning to complete the task which I am still astounded at.

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Now you should know the TV ad, that is the one pretty much that has been on TV for the last few years “Lucky, your with AAMI”, well we are with AAMI and I can tell you lucky I rung them a couple of times when I was sorting out our house insurance in Brisbane.

The usual happened and the house and contents bill arrived in the mail just before the due date and in true fashion it sat in the bill tray up until a few days out from paying and then I looked at it.

I thought it was higher than the last year by quite a bit, I know most bills have gone up, electricity and water too, so I thought I’d just check it out as you know have quite a few choices that you can make when getting your home and contents insurance in regards to different insurance companies offering a lot of different prices and policies.

I looked up our last bill and to my surprise there was a $329 increase in the insurance cost in one year for exactly the same cover.

Now I started to wonder, if the house insurance goes up this much every year soon we will be paying as much as the house is worth every year just to insure the house and what’s in it, so I made the first call to AAMI at around 11.30pm that night.

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