I guess everyone knows that you get some kind of discount if you have both house and cars insured with the same company. I have had for several years. But the problem was that they expired or had to be renewed at different times, so it was a little hard to accurately compare all the other offers I got in the mail from other companies. So about a year and a half ago, I stopped by the AAA office and told their new insurance guy that I wanted both to renew at the same time. He said, "OK" but then called me later to say that they couldn't do that. I assured him that they could, but he was adamant that they could not. I told him there was a real simple way for me to do it, that I could just cancel my AAA insurance and buy both home and auto insurance elsewhere. His boss, the office manager, got involved and assured me that he could do it, AND DID.:laughing:
Sometimes these agents just need a little incentive. Many years ago, before I retired, we had State Farm insurance and our agent was a lady who was also in our Sunday school class in Church. When I retired and we took off traveling, I called her office to get the insurance on the truck and on the RV to expire at the same time. Our agent had hired her son to work in the office and he said he didn't know how to do it, so he'd have to ask Judy (his mother). I told him for one of them to call me back right away. After not hearing from them for many days, I bought insurance elsewhere and cancelled the State Farm insurance. And THEN Judy called and told me she could change the insurance the way I wanted, but I told her she was just too late.
