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Hello, I have a book of business in a specific industry segment I am looking to buy from my current agency. Annual premium of the book is $2 million, with 98% being commercial, and 2% personal lines. Gross annual revenue is $223,000. Knowing that no one else in the agency could nor would service this sector as I do from a knowledge of the market, travel time(as accounts are all over the country), and always being "the face of the franchise" to my customers, can anyone provide what you would think would be fair to offer to buy my book out from current agency? With how much down and amount of time to pay off remainder? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for any insight and input you can provide.

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Hi All, This specific to California. There are some ZIP CODES in California that carriers have a MORATORIUM on Fire Insurance, on of the areas are the San Bernardino Mountains. Besides the DIC policies with the California Fair Plan companion policy, what other carriers would provide a full comprehensive policy? I know of Lexington will, Lloyds I heard just pulled out, any others? Also, I have heard from other agents that there is no coverage for Multi-million dollar homes in that area, too much for CFP

In November last year, a Nationwide insurance agent/adjuster made a mistake while investigating an insurance claim by a couple in Buffalo Township, PA (Pittsburgh area). This agent saw some hibiscus plants in the couple's backyard and mistook them for Marijuana. He then called the police and the couple were treated like suspected marijuana growers while police investigated. The couple is understandably suing the agent and Nationwide Insurance. When the story was released, people were very upset and they contacted CompleteMarkets and many of them left reviews on this agents CompleteMarkets profile - hundreds of reviews. Many of these reviews were rejected by our verification process for various reasons, profanity, unable to verify identity of reviewer etc. The agent quietly logged into the profile and changed all the information. Rather than contacting us and asking us to help state his case. Or, even better, stating his case on his profile, helping to salvage his reputation, he chose to attempt to 'bury' the information under a false name, and false information, but left the profile active. His profile still shows up on Google, so that has not really helped his cause. Yet, this is a very rare case, and appears to be a terrible mistake on this agent/adjuster's part. In the vast majority of cases when we get an irate client or just a pissed of competitor trying to leave a tasteless irrelevant review on our website our processes and team is able to suppress these 'invalid and unverifiable reviews' of our agents. We try to keep things fair. In many cases, our members invite their clients(via email and social media) to review them on CompleteMarkets, as it vastly improves their fortunes because of the trust and credibility factor when prospects are researching them online. I would love to hear any thoughts from members of this group as it relates to soliciting reviews, being researched online and defending reviews online. Most of our Prestige Professional members (our low cost premium membership) have great reviews, because they care about their reputation and they provide great service to insureds. If interested, you can review the premium membership here - https://completemarkets.com/shop/product/PrestigePro/ But is this an anomaly - agents looking to manage their online reputation? Are agents too busy to build an online reputation? Do they think it's the responsibility of the agency or the agency owner?

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Hello All, I spoke with a prospect today that said his State Farm agent is writing his vacant property insurance. I've been writing vacant properties for years and never heard of State Farm writing this type of risk, does anyone know if they're actually writing this product and/or if they have an endorsement for this? Any information would be greatly appreciated as I don't think this guy is being properly insured. Thank you!