The Carmi Agency
Mortgage Protection Insurance · Illinois

Your family keeps the house. No matter what.

Mortgage protection is life insurance built around your home loan. If something happens to you, your family isn't choosing between grief and a mortgage payment — the house gets paid for.

Free and no obligation. Text QUOTE to (309) 239-1353 — no forms, no phone tag.

Licensed in Illinois · NPN 20244758 Independent — 40+ carriers 15-minute phone review Text or call — your choice
What we do

Coverage built around your life, not a sales quota

Independent means we work for you, not one insurance company. Different carriers are better for different people — a diabetic, a smoker, a 60-year-old, a young family — and knowing which is which is the whole job.

Mortgage Protection

Coverage sized to your loan, so the house gets paid off and your family stays put.

Term Life Insurance

Straightforward protection for the years your family depends on your income most.

Final Expense

Smaller whole-life coverage so funeral costs never land on the people you love.

Living Benefits

Many plans let you access your benefit early if you're diagnosed with a serious illness.

How it works

Four steps. No home visits, no pressure.

Everything happens over the phone, on your schedule.

Tell us about your loan

Two minutes: your mortgage balance, your age, and a few health questions.

We do the homework

We shop your situation across our carriers and build the options that actually fit — including ones for a tighter budget.

A quick phone call

About 15 minutes. We walk through your options together, you ask questions, and you decide. No obligation.

We handle the rest

If you move forward, we work with underwriting to get you approved — and stay with you after the policy is in force.

About

A neighbor who happens to read the fine print

The Carmi Agency is an independent life insurance agency founded by Jackie Carmichael — a licensed Illinois insurance producer.

We specialize in mortgage protection for Illinois homeowners: families who just bought or refinanced and want to know the house is safe if the worst happens.

We're brokers, not captive agents. We're not trying to fit you into one company's product — we're looking across the market for the plan that makes sense for your health, your loan, and what you can comfortably afford. And if the honest answer is that you don't need what we sell, we'll tell you that too.

Licensed
Illinois · NPN 20244758
Structure
Independent agency, 40+ carriers
Carrier network
Nationwide — all 50 states
Specialty
Mortgage protection & final expense
Protection
Errors & Omissions insured
Contact
thecarmiagency@gmail.com
Free tool

How much coverage would your family actually need?

Most people guess low by two or three times. Our calculator adds up the mortgage payoff, the income your family would lose, and what it takes to keep them steady — in about thirty seconds, with no personal information required.

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Example
$540,000
for a family with a $250k mortgage and one income
Mortgage payoff
+ 10 years of income
+ final expenses
Getting started

Two ways to start. Both take a minute.

However you reach out, a licensed agent — not a call center — gets back to you.

Text us — fastest

Send the word QUOTE to (309) 239-1353. Answer a couple of quick questions by text, on your own time, and we'll take it from there.

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Fill out the form

Prefer to type it out? The request form takes about two minutes and gets you the same personal follow-up.

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Find out what you qualify for

It costs nothing to look, and most people are surprised how affordable protecting their mortgage actually is.