@Save-n-Invest wrote:AARP is a joke.
Interesting opinion. While I'm not a fan of much of their lobbying activities, I did ultimately join a few years ago and have definitely benefited financially from the move. The single largest benefit to me was insurance, our car and home insurance dropped from just over $3,000 per year to $1,100.
@Horseshoez wrote:
@Save-n-Invest wrote:AARP is a joke.
Interesting opinion. While I'm not a fan of much of their lobbying activities, I did ultimately join a few years ago and have definitely benefited financially from the move. The single largest benefit to me was insurance, our car and home insurance dropped from just over $3,000 per year to $1,100.
+1. They saved me a ton of money on my highly-customized ADT security system. That alone was worth years and years of annual dues!
@Horseshoez wrote:
@Save-n-Invest wrote:AARP is a joke.
Interesting opinion. While I'm not a fan of much of their lobbying activities, I did ultimately join a few years ago and have definitely benefited financially from the move. The single largest benefit to me was insurance, our car and home insurance dropped from just over $3,000 per year to $1,100.
That sure is a push on all the television ads on I just save $___ on my car insurance! That is a real piece of change. 
@House2021 wrote:Horseshoez did it save you on auto and home insurance because there's an AARP owned company or how did you save so much? You have to pay dues for that discount?
The AARP insurance for home and auto is via The Hartford, I had previously been insured by Liberty Mutual for over 20 years. As for dues, yes, I signed up for a 5-year membership and paid something like $60, so yeah, dues of about $12 per year.
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@Horseshoez wrote:
@Save-n-Invest wrote:AARP is a joke.
Interesting opinion. While I'm not a fan of much of their lobbying activities, I did ultimately join a few years ago and have definitely benefited financially from the move. The single largest benefit to me was insurance, our car and home insurance dropped from just over $3,000 per year to $1,100.
That sure is a push on all the television ads on I just save $___ on my car insurance! That is a real piece of change.
There can be huge savings from becoming a new customer! I had the same auto-insurance for many years (at least 20) who also covered my house. My ex-employer also has a special program where three big companies offer deals to employees and retirees. For some reason I cannot recall, two years ago I decided to get a quote from another company. My auto insurance dropped from $2,200 to $700 (with a discount for belonging to another org which we already did), home insurance saw a smaller drop of about $500.
This impact (switch insurers often) is well-known but sometimes hard to take the time to do, but it can be impressive.
@Save-n-Invest wrote:AARP is a joke.
The subject of a likely COLA of +5% is being covered by organizations besides AARP.
