Sometimes, it takes losing everything to learn important lessons. My lesson came when my house burned down to the ground and I didn't have the amount of insurance coverage that I needed to replace the belongings that I lost and to rebuild my home. It was a very difficult learning experience, but I came through it far more knowledgeable than I was when I took out the insurance policy to begin with. I created this blog to help others learn the way homeowners insurance works and how to ensure that the insurance coverage on the home is adequate to cover the cost of loss should it happen.