This is a pretty subjective question, but I have a few thoughts to share that I think can make you more comfortable about your life insurance purchase.
Does it match your needs? When you
purchase life insurance that you don't need or doesn't accomplish what you intend, then that is a bad deal no matter how cheap it is. Think about why you purchased or are purchasing the life insurance. Debts, funeral expenses, income replacement, estate taxes, tax free investing, etc. all have different life insurance product needs. If you want to make sure your wife and small children have income to live on until the kids are grown, then find yourself a level term product that lasts until your kids are adults or the age you plan to retire. If you want to make sure your funeral expenses are paid for, then a guaranteed whole life insurance product that will pay if you die tomorrow or 50 years into the future probably makes the most sense.
PriceI always recommend that you research and shop around to find a plan with a good rate at a company with high ratings and a high level of customer service. I apply this philosophy to most of my shopping. When I get ready to purchase a new electronic gadget that I need, (or want, whatever) I will usually look up the product on both Amazon and Google Shopping just to see what the going rate is. I love shopping with Amazon. Their service is great and I really trust them as an online retailer. If their price is pretty close to the lower prices on Google Shopping, then I will usually buy from Amazon rather than risk saving a few percentage points to go with an unknown company or someone on Ebay.
When I buy running shoes, I usually go to a store that specializes in running shoes. The people there usually are runners and they know their shoes. They usually pull about ten pairs of shoes they recommend and we work for about thirty minutes to find the perfect shoe. Sure I could probably find a better rate if I purchased online or from an athletic super store but with a running shoe, finding the really good shoe is more important to me than finding the cheapest shoe.
When I purchased my life insurance, I took the same approach. I went to an
online life insurance website that I trusted and got a list of companies and rates. I went with the second cheapest company for the type of product I wanted because the company had higher ratings and was only a few dollars more expensive per year. I didn't even check other websites or shop with other agents because I had found the shopping experience I trusted the most to find the life insurance product that fit me the best.
Michael,
Garden State Life Insurance
This is what the most of the sunflowers in the garden look like right now. Beautiful bright yellow being explored be a swarm of big black happy bees. They are coming along nicely although not as huge as the ones that grew last year. If all goes well I should be able to get a couple a bags of seeds out of these, but there is a problem. The problem, besides me being able to take a properly focused photograph, is that something is eating or in some way destroying the freaking flowers. Where are they going? There is not a pile of flowers on the ground around these stems. At least seven sunflower plants look the same way. Right at where the flower would meet the stem it simply ends in a frayed mess. Are they all going to disappear? The only positive is that I think I could use these for make shift paint brushes for the kids to play with, but there gonna say "Hey Dad, where did the flowers go" and the best answer I got is maybe big foot at them. Nature would be great if it wasn't for all the bugs and animals and stuff.
