10/16/2026
More people in San Angelo and across West Texas are running a business from home than ever. Consultants, contractors, photographers, bookkeepers, caterers, dog groomers. If that is you, here is a gap worth understanding before it costs you.
A standard homeowners policy is written for residential use. It is not designed to cover business operations, and it typically carries significant limits or outright exclusions once business activity is involved. On the property side, most standard policies cap coverage for business equipment and inventory kept at home at around 2,500 dollars. If you have a laptop, a camera, professional tools, or inventory worth more than that, you are exposed beyond what your homeowners policy will pay.
The liability side is more serious. If a client, vendor, or delivery person is injured on your property while doing business with you, your homeowners liability may not cover that claim. Business liability is generally excluded from a personal homeowners policy, which is exactly the kind of surprise nobody wants to discover after the fact.
The good news is there are solutions to fit the size of the operation. Some carriers offer endorsements that add a modest amount of business coverage to a homeowners policy, which can work for a low traffic, low risk home office. For more substantial operations, an in home business policy or a separate commercial general liability policy is usually the right answer. The Texas Department of Insurance has published guidance on this exact question because it comes up so often.
If you run any kind of business from home and have not had this conversation with your agent, it is worth closing that gap. It does not have to be complicated. It just needs to be addressed specifically. Message us your question about home business coverage.