Marinkovski Insurance and Financial Services Inc.

Marinkovski Insurance and Financial Services Inc. 9059491500 We are located in the heart of Mississauga, and that is exactly what you get when you call us, HEART!

Our clients are not numbers, we know every one of them by face or name! When you walk into the office you will be welcomed, and offered a specialty coffee, tea or cold beverage. We pride ourselves on our integrity, honesty and customer service. We thank you for making the choice to stay with us, and we will earn your business each and every day!

"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a w...
09/07/2026

"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it." — Michael J. Fox

Edmonton-born, and one of the clearest thinkers on resilience alive — because he's had to be.

What makes this line so strong is the distinction it draws. Resignation says: bad things happen, nothing to be done. Acceptance says something completely different: bad things happen, so let's be honest about that and build the way through in advance. One posture is passive. The other is quietly the most active stance a person can take.

Most of adult life rewards the second posture. You accept that markets dip, so you diversify. You accept that careers turn, so you keep learning. You accept that roofs leak, drivers collide, and basements flood — so the way through exists before the water does.

That's really all sound coverage is: acceptance, converted into a plan. Not dwelling on what could go wrong. Just refusing to pretend it can't, and then getting on with your life — lighter for it.

A steady thought for a slow Monday. Enjoy the last long weekend of summer.

MARINKOVSKI INSURANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.
905-949-1500

Before you head up north this weekend, sixty seconds on the things people tow, drive, and borrow — because the September...
09/04/2026

Before you head up north this weekend, sixty seconds on the things people tow, drive, and borrow — because the September long weekend is peak season for all three.

The trailer. Depending on your policy, the liability side of towing is often connected to the vehicle doing the towing — but coverage for the trailer itself, and whatever's in it, is a separate question. If you're towing anything of value, know which question your policy answers.

The boat, the sea-doo, the ATV. These typically aren't covered under home or auto policies the way people assume. They generally need their own coverage or specific arrangements — and "it's just for the weekend" isn't a category insurers recognize.
The borrowed everything. Long weekends run on lending — cars, cottages, boats, keys. Lending the thing often means lending the coverage attached to it. That works both ways.

The cottage itself. A seasonal property is its own insurance conversation entirely — occupancy, access, and how it's used all matter.

None of this needs to be solved by Friday at 4pm. But if any of these made you pause, that's the note for Tuesday morning.

Safe travels. Enjoy the unofficial last weekend of summer.

MARINKOVSKI INSURANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.
905-949-1500

09/04/2026

THE ADVISOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Understanding what you’re protecting—and why.

Insurance is the only product you buy hoping never to use it. That creates a strange dynamic: most people's entire relat...
09/02/2026

Insurance is the only product you buy hoping never to use it. That creates a strange dynamic: most people's entire relationship with their coverage is a payment leaving their account — right up until the day it's the most important contract they own.
I've built my career around that day.

After years in this industry — and the CIP designation that came with taking it seriously — here's the pattern I can't unsee: the difference between a claim that goes smoothly and one that becomes a second crisis is almost never decided at claim time. It's decided years earlier, in whether anyone ever sat down and matched the policy to the actual life. The rental suite nobody mentioned. The renovation nobody called about. The coverage bought in ten minutes online and never read.

My job isn't selling policies. It's closing the gap between what people think they're covered for and what their policy actually says — while there's still time for the answer to be fixable. Auto, home, condo, life, business: the products change, the principle doesn't. You should never be meeting your own policy for the first time during a claim.

So if there's a policy in your drawer you've never really read — or a question you've been assuming the answer to — bring it to me. That conversation is the whole job.

— Snezana

MARINKOVSKI INSURANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.
905-949-1500

"Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive." — Chri...
08/31/2026

"Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive." — Chris Hadfield

Before Chris Hadfield commanded the International Space Station, he spent years rehearsing everything that could go wrong up there. Astronauts call it "working the problem" — and Hadfield's insight is that this habit doesn't make you anxious. It makes you calm.

Most people have it backwards. They avoid thinking about bad outcomes because it feels like worrying — the flood, the accident, the fire. So the thinking never happens, and the anxiety stays exactly where it was, unexamined and permanent.

Hadfield's version is the opposite: look directly at the thing, ask "what would we actually do?", answer the question, and move on lighter than before. Worry is the problem circling. Preparation is the problem solved in advance.

That's the honest case for reviewing your coverage, and it has nothing to do with fear. It's an hour of looking directly at the what-ifs so they stop following you around.

Work the problem while it's still hypothetical. That's how astronauts sleep well.

MARINKOVSKI INSURANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.
905-949-1500

Your home's market value has almost nothing to do with how much insurance you need. That surprises people, so let me exp...
08/28/2026

Your home's market value has almost nothing to do with how much insurance you need. That surprises people, so let me explain the logic.

Market value is what someone would pay for your property: house, land, location, school district, proximity to the GO station. But your insurer isn't covering your address. It's covering the cost to rebuild the structure if it's destroyed.

Land doesn't burn. Location doesn't burn. What burns is lumber, drywall, wiring, plumbing, roofing — plus the labour to put it all back, at whatever construction costs are doing when your claim happens, not when you bought the house.

This is why a home worth $1.4 million on the market and a home worth $800,000 in another neighbourhood can need surprisingly similar coverage: the structures may cost roughly the same to rebuild. It's also why coverage that made sense years ago can quietly fall behind — construction and material costs move independently of your policy.

The expert question isn't "what's my home worth?" It's "what would it cost to rebuild my home, today, to today's building code?" If you don't know how your policy arrives at that number, that's the conversation to have.

When did you last look at how your rebuild value was calculated? Snezana can walk through it with you.

MARINKOVSKI INSURANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.
905-949-1500

Renovating your home is exciting — but many homeowners forget one important step after completing upgrades.Reviewing the...
08/26/2026

Renovating your home is exciting — but many homeowners forget one important step after completing upgrades.

Reviewing their insurance coverage.

Renovations can significantly change the value and risk profile of your property.

Examples include:

• Finished basements
• Kitchen upgrades
• Home additions
• Custom features
• Increased contents value

If your policy still reflects your home before renovations, your coverage may not accurately represent what exists today.

Your home insurance should evolve as your home does.

Major improvements deserve a coverage conversation.

Want to work with us? Contact us to learn more about your options!

MARINKOVSKI INSURANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.
905-949-1500

08/25/2026

What is an insurance agency and how we can help.

Not many of us in Ontario who offer all types of insurance coverages. Even less who are owned by business owners who hire and pay for their own teams.





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