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To ensure you have the protection you need, make sure you're clear on the terms. Here's the foundation for the seven basic types of home insurance. Home insurance usually boils down to two crucial concerns: protection and price. Although regulated at the state level, home insurance is more of a national product than is auto insurance, meaning you will find fewer local variations. The proper home insurance coverage consists of buying the right type of policy, having the proper levels of protection within that policy (including special provisions for jewelry, your computer and other particularly valuable possessions) and supplementing this coverage with special protection against natural disasters that are not covered in a basic policy. Homeowners with mortgages are required by their lenders to have home insurance. Lenders want to make sure their exposure is covered, but that can happen without you being fully protected. Thus, it's important that you calculate your needs as well and make sure they are reflected in your coverage. There are seven basic kinds of home insurance policies and they're pretty much the same. They tend to be defined by the perils they cover: