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Posted By: Brian Lindholme

I bought a new house and it gives me the reason to look at homeowners insurance once again...I have to switch agents anyway because I'm moving to another state (WA).

I've never had a good idea of what my cards might sell for, so it's making it hard to set a price for insurance...I've been woefully underinsured for many years.

I suppose the best thing to do is to insure them separately from the home, right?

Also, I don't want to breach any etiquette, but I have a few cards that don't show up either on eBay or auction too often,and they are raw. Do y'all have some suggestions as to how I might assign a value to those? I could always take a wild guess, but that wouldn't be any fun. Any objections to me listing 5 or 6 cards (sorry no scans because they are all packed still) and seeing what the consensus price I should insure them for?

Any additional advice on insuring my collection would be appreciated.

Thanks
Brian L
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