Life Insurance Rates Term

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My father is 60, smoker and taking Zocor. Normal weight. The quotes I have seen for a 10 yr term for $150,000 are $180 a month. Does that seem right? Anyone know a cheaper one? Basically I inherit the house while my relative gets the cash, so it’s all fair. I would make the payments and leave my relative as the beneficiary. Thanks
the reason I have to get the life ins is because he is leaving me the swanky $400K California home. Meanwhile I have to give my sister $150K in cash to make it even (per my father). Since I don’t have that kind of cash (I’m 35) I need life ins now in case he passes away this decade. My father wants me to take out a 2nd mtg upon his death, but I told him that would add $700 monthly to the existing mortgage payment for 30 years (I pay that too) so I’d rather pay $200 for 15 years now. Oh and he’s on board. He knows I would have to sell the house to pay off my sister, so this is the only way to have the cash. All good answers! I will probably get a 15 year term and worry about what I’ll do if he lives to be 75.
in the history of may family 1 male lived past 70. that’s why I think if I insure him till 75 I’l be fine. The L.A. house is worth $400K but we owe $80K. I’ll have no problem paying the mtg and bills, since I do it now. However if he died tomorrow, and I owed my sis $150K, I’d be screwed and have to sell. All the answers are taking into account that he’ll live past 75 and I should save the money instead, but I’m worried about him getting by a bus tomorrow and me having to sell the house. I don;t want the cash, I want to keep the house. I graduated high school from that house

I have been paying in to a Chase Life term insurance policy for $100,000.00 for over 10 years.
I have recently received a quote for $250,000.00 term policy for LESS than I am paying for the $100K policy.
Do I lose anything by changing companies?

My parents got me a whole life insurance policy when I was young. Now I’m 24 and have a full time job (have worked here for over a year) and am receiving term life insurance from my employer.

Do you think it would be a smart idea to cash in my Whole Life policy and pay off all of my debt. Instead of paying high interest rates and barely getting any of the principal paid off i could pay it all off and save my money for other things.

I don’t need two insurance policies right?! I am engaged but I don’t have any children, and don’t plan to for another 5-6 years.

P.S. I’m not really looking for advice on getting an extra job, I’m looking for financial advice about Insurance.

I have a Bachelors degree, I can do freelance work if i have to. I already work full time tho so I am avoiding getting another job. I would rather be broke than stressed to death, hah.
I do own the policy, its in my name. I already talked to my parents about it and they are fine with any decision i make.
Yall are giving me some really good things to think about. Appreciate the advice

I’m just now starting to understand all of my insurance/disability/and 401k stuff, and man is it confusing!

I’m 35, I have two daughters (age 10 and 5 months) plus two step sons and a fiance. I’m at a point in my life where I want to purchase life insurance to take care of my kids. I work for the government and won’t be legally able to retire for another 17 years. I only have one policy (paid for by my work) for 48K and this is not enough. I want to take out a policy for 1,000,000. Should I go with the 10 year term life insurance and re-enroll when I am 45? What are the chances that the lock in rates will go up or down based on historical evidence? If you were in my shoes what would you do? I’ve already considered whole life but honestly I can’t afford the premiums on whole life for this sort of policy (although I haven’t looked) and I’d rather invest the difference in IRA’s for the next X amount of years.

I’m considering either the 10, 30 or 35 year term. What do you think?

Thanks for all replies!!
I was thinking of taking out a 1-2 mil policy now for a 10 year term and decrease the amount as I get older and my kids get older. I figure when it’s time to renew I can take out a smaller policy every so many years until the kids are old enough to take care of themselves and then when I am real old I will only need enough just to cover my funeral expenses and a little something for the kids/grandkids. DOes that help?
I don’t know if I am misconceived about the notion that if I go with a longer term and say I died just after the insurance took effect, my kids would get the amount of the insurance policy minus the premiums owed for that many years (say 35 year term life) – is this correct or am I overanalyzing?

I currently have a term life insurance policy and am considering converting it to a whole life policy. I’m married with no kids. My wife has her own life insurance and retirements already in place. We are not going to have children. The main reason I was interested in the Whole Life was the investing portion to supplement my current mutual fund retirement. Should I pay the extra premiums for the Whole life or should I keep the term life and put the extra money into a Roth IRA? Any advice would be great. Thank you

Any suggestions on finding a reasonable life insurance policy for a man 54 about to turn 55 in a month with a spouse would be appreciated.

He has a soon to expire term life insurance policy at the present.

He wants the best for his money.

Is a term insurance policy still the best type of policy or would another policy be better?

We are in the process of getting life insurance quotes. Married, wife is 23 and husband is 27 (he is a pilot so has horrible rates). At first we thought we would want a 30 year term policy for $300k. When we met with an agent he gave us quotes for term and universal life. The premiums were about $30 more a month (increased from $170 to $200 for the two of us) for the universal life policy. I would have never considered a permanent policy until receiving these numbers as from my research I thought we would get very low term rates and unaffordable permanent policy rates. $200/month is unaffordable so we are likely going to drop our amount of coverage to the minimum we’d need anyways. I don’t foresee us to need insurance after the 30 years is up, we would rather invest on our own, etc. Just looking at the cost per month and that after 30 years we’d be out the $170/month with nothing to show except peace of mind vs. after 30 years paying $200/month having a bunch of money guaranteed to us (another form of retirement savings although with high fees), would it be dumb to choose a term policy because of our weird rates? Which should we pick (I am still shopping around to make sure I can’t get a better deal on term but this is going through our family’s agent)? Thanks!
From the guaranteed projections for this 50% fixed 50% variable (based on S&P500) policy we would come out ahead vs. investing the $30/month difference on our own. Otherwise, I would never even consider this. I had always heard it was better to get term insurance. Thing is, our rates are so high as my husband is a pilot (otherwise it would be under $80/month and term would be a better deal). The goal is to protect the surviving spouse against our debts for the next 30 years while we expect to have debts (or our parents if both of us die). Are there any other types of permanent insurance that we should look at instead that may still make more financial sense than universal? I am also getting more quotes to see if this term quote was high. Also, this rate is subject to decrease after they evaluate the questionnaire my husband answered about his flying (the agent assumed he would get the same rating as his other clients who are pilots). We have separate retirement savings.

instead of shopping around for a new company, i was wondering if i can contact the current company to see if they’ll lower the rate due to the insured person’s improved health. the person was extremely close to qualifying for the best rate, but technically fell in the second best rate, but we’re confident that the best rate will apply at this point. thanks in advance for your reply!

I have purchased a term life policy. My universal life policy is raising each year therefore eating up my cash value unless I pay higher rates. The term life policy rate is frozen for 10 years and is worth more than the univesal policy. I want to cash out the univerasl policy and cancel the policy.

I signed up for the expensive Variable Life Insurance policy when I was making lots of money. Now that my earnings have dropped, the Variable plan is too expensive. I have some health issues which will prevent me from getting a reasonable rate on a new term life policy. Is it likely that NW Life will allow me to convert to term at the “health standard” that they used to sign me up 15 years ago?