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A large share of the letting that happens in Yukon never appears in a rental listing: a converted garage apartment, a finished space over the shop, a spare room let to somebody working in the metro. Harvey Insurance writes Canadian County coverage for that arrangement specifically, because it is the one form of landlording that a homeowners policy is most often assumed to already handle.
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Letting part of the property you occupy sits in a genuinely awkward place, and it is a different problem from moving out and keeping the house. Because you still live there, the homeowners policy remains the right base contract — it is not simply the wrong form the way it would be on a house you have vacated. But taking rent introduces two things that policy was not underwritten for. The first is a paying occupant with their own legal standing on your premises, which changes the liability picture in ways a standard form addresses narrowly or not at all. The second is that the arrangement is income-producing, and most homeowners forms limit or exclude business activity conducted at the residence. Carriers are not hostile to this; several will simply endorse the policy once they know, and the usual routes are a rental-to-others or additional-residence-rented endorsement, or in some cases a permitted-incidental-occupancy provision. All of them share one requirement, which is that the carrier is told. The failure mode is not that coverage is expensive. It is that an undisclosed paying occupant turns up during a claim investigation, and the conversation stops being about the loss and starts being about whether the policy described the risk. A phone call before the tenant moves in costs nothing and closes the whole question.
Get a Free Landlord QuoteA homeowners policy assumes you live in the home — the moment a tenant moves in, it’s the wrong contract. Landlord coverage is built for rental property: the structure, your liability as an owner, and the rent checks a covered loss would interrupt.
Yukon landlord risk is often part of a property the owner is still living in.
Letting a room or a garage apartment is endorsable and usually cheap. Undisclosed, it becomes a question about the policy rather than the claim.
A paying occupant has standing a guest does not, and a standard homeowners liability section is not written with that relationship in mind.
Space converted for letting is frequently insured as an outbuilding at a fraction of the dwelling limit, which no longer matches what it is.
We write across Yukon’s older streets, its newer additions and the properties along Route 66.
The historic center, where older houses carry the conversions and additions that make up much of the informal letting here.
Established family streets, where a finished space over the garage is a common and commonly unreported arrangement.
Larger lots on the north side, generous enough for a shop with living space above it.
Properties along the old highway, some of them mixed use in a way that complicates a single residential policy.
Newer construction on the west side, let whole or in part by owners who are still in the house.
We’re not a call center or an app. We’re a local agency that treats every client like a neighbor — because most of them are.
We work with the most trusted carriers in the country — and in Yukon we will get the arrangement written into the policy before a claim asks about it.
We understand the specific risks Yukon property owners face and write every policy with that knowledge front and center.
When you have a question or a claim, you reach us — the same people who wrote your policy. We know your name and advocate for you, every time.
Letting a room or a garage apartment? Tell us. It is usually a simple endorsement. Today.
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