The homeowner or property owner is responsible for providing Construction Insurance and requires a specific addition to Car Home Construction Insurance – Property Owners Liability Insurance. The owner is fully responsible for all garages despite having access to 1 of them for themselves. It is rare, but on some occasions the free owner of the property may not have access to any of the garages, but even in this case they would still need to provide insurance for them on behalf of the renter.

The lease / agreement is typically a 999-year peppercorn lease, and it is generally specified in the deeds that no rent is paid for the land. The Freeholder may request a nominal contribution to the cost of Coach House Building Insurance if he wishes. Typically, this would total about 20% of the total construction insurance costs across all tenants. For example: If there were 2 garages in Lease, the free owner could request 10% of the total insurance costs of the bus house buildings from each tenant, for a total of a contribution of 20%. The percentage that a free owner can request may vary slightly, but around 20% would be the norm. The freeholder should also take care to eliminate additional insurance costs when calculating this contribution, for example, the freeholder should not include their own insurance costs for home contents or emergency coverage, but remember to include costs such as tax on the insurance premium (IPT) which is 6%. The policy provider will be able to help the policyholder to itemize these costs.

Coach Houses also need specific Coach House content insurance, and this is something that many people overlook, assuming they can have any content insurance, fixed insurance is the most common mistake. This is not the case. If a tenant starts a fire that destroys the building and its contents, the insurer will not pay to replace the contents of a garage if the policy is for an apartment. A building and contents garage insurance policy allows renter-insured events; non-garage policies do not.

It is also beneficial to insure the contents and buildings in a single policy; this would avoid 2 insurers, 2 claims, and 2 excess policies in most claims scenarios. Most fires damage the building and contents, most burglaries involve damage to the building, as well as theft or damage to the contents, leaking water can destroy carpets (content insurance) and knock down roofs.