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There are a lot of grievous mistakes that people make. They cost them dearly. It is certainly sad for a person to pay thousands of dollars over the course of a few years just because they didn't take note of something quite simple. It's also equally sad if they pay so much because they're ignorant of few simple tips. I'll point a few of both the mistakes and important steps here...

1. For no reason must you allow your auto insurance policy to lapse. It will make you pay high premiums for a long time. It's easy for this to happen to some folks when they are switching to another insurer. To avoid a lapse, ensure the new policy is fully in place before you terminate the old. It looks simple but, believe it or not, a lot of people are paying a lot more simply because they made this mistake.

2. Do you have a car you've not driven in months? Do you have a broken car? Have you removed it from your auto insurance policy? Simple as this looks a lot of people end up paying thousands in unnecessary premiums because they don't remember to remove such cars from their policy. Don't make this mistake.

3. If you elect to pay your premiums monthly, you will attract more expensive health insurance rates. The ads may show that monthly payments are less stressful but what you don't know is how much more you pay for this.

Every check that is processed attracts a charge. For 12 checks (that is, your monthly premiums) you'll have a total of twelve transactions. This implies that you will pay transaction fees twelve times.

Apart from this there are also administrative costs that come with the monthly payment option. For example, it costs some money to send payment notices each and every month.

These and more are then added to your health insurance premium thereby making it more than if you paid yearly.

4. Electronic Funds Transfer (abbreviated as EFT) is an easy way to bring down your premium. This authorizes your bank to credit your insurance provider with your premium payments without any intervention from you until you advise otherwise. This saves your insurer in many ways such as removing the cost of sending payment notices and the expense of processing checks. This is why this results in discounts.

5. As simple and popular as they are, quotes sites are still not being used well by many. Most quotes sites return quotes from just about five insurers. Therefore, anyone who just gets quotes from one site isn't getting the best deal there is for their profile.

Therefore, do yourself a favor: Get and compare quotes from five or more reputable quotes sites. If you want to take it to the ultimate level, visit your state's department of insurance and get a list of all insurers rated at least A. Get and compare quotes from all of them.

This might be a bit of work but you'll also position yourself for the very best rate