Mark Hill, licensed insurance agent at The Scheiderich Agency
Licensed Insurance Agent

Mark Hill — Insurance Agent in Buford, GA

Mark has lived in countries around the world and in several states before Georgia. Moving means learning a new set of rules every time, and insurance is one of the less obvious ones — which is why explaining it to people starting from scratch became the part of the job he is best at.

Mon–Fri 8AM–5PM  ·  Sat by appointment  ·  After hours calls returned next business day

Licensed Insurance Agent in Georgia
Lived and worked internationally
Downtown Buford, GA
About Mark

Insurance for People Starting Somewhere New

Every place Mark has lived had its own assumptions about insurance — what was mandatory, what was normal to carry, what nobody bothered with. Arriving somewhere and discovering your instincts are calibrated to a different system is a specific kind of disorientation, and he has been through it more than once.

Georgia has its own version of that. Coverage that was standard where a client came from may be unusual here, and the reverse happens too. Rather than assuming a baseline, Mark asks what someone carried before and uses it as the reference point: this is what you had, here is what that translates to in Georgia, here is where the two genuinely differ.

He works with a wide range of backgrounds, and the common thread is that people arrive with different starting knowledge. Some have decades of insurance history in another country that will not transfer. Some have never held a policy in their own name. The explanation adjusts to the person rather than the other way around.

At a glance
  • Licensed Insurance Agent in Georgia
  • Experience across international and US markets
  • Household lines — property, vehicles, life, and combined policies
  • Works with clients new to Georgia and to US insurance
Who He Works With

Who Mark Works With

Usually someone comparing a new system against a familiar one.

Buyers relocating to Georgia from another state or country

Clients with no Georgia insurance history

Anyone who has found insurance conversations confusing elsewhere

Households comparing coverage they held somewhere else against Georgia options

Get in Touch

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Tell him what you need and he will follow up, typically within the same business day.

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Reach Mark

770-268-4418
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  • Mon–Fri8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  • SaturdayBy Appointment
  • SundayClosed

Calls after 5:00 PM will be returned the next business day.

60 W Park St
Buford, GA 30518
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What He Handles

Coverage Mark Writes

The same lines as the rest of the office, explained from wherever your starting point happens to be.

Home Insurance

If you owned property elsewhere, the structure of a Georgia homeowners policy will look familiar in places and not in others. Mark maps the differences rather than assuming you already know them.

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Auto Insurance

Georgia requires 25/50/25 liability at minimum. Whether that is close to what you carried before depends entirely on where you are coming from, so Mark starts by asking.

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Life Insurance

For clients whose family is spread across states or countries, the useful question is who would need money and where. Mark works through that before discussing policy types.

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Bundle & Save

Putting home and auto with one agency simplifies the paperwork considerably — helpful when you are already managing a move, a closing, and a new set of accounts.

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Insurance Review

Bring what you have, including a policy from another state. Mark will tell you what carries over, what does not apply in Georgia, and where you may now be under-covered.

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How It Works

How Mark Approaches It

Three steps, and you can stop at any of them.

STEP 01

Start from what you know

He asks what you carried before and what you understood it to cover. That gives the conversation a reference point instead of starting from a blank form and a list of Georgia statutes.

STEP 02

Translate, then compare

You get a straight comparison: this is the Georgia equivalent, this is where the coverage is genuinely different, this is where your old assumptions would cost you.

STEP 03

Take the time you need

Nothing is decided in the first call. Options come in writing, and coverage only starts once a policy has been issued and you have confirmed it.

Common Questions

Questions Clients Ask Mark

I just moved to Georgia. What has to change?
Vehicle registration and auto insurance are the time-sensitive pieces, since Georgia requires coverage that meets its own minimums and your previous policy may not qualify. Homeowners or renters coverage follows the property. Mark can go through which items have deadlines attached and which can wait a few weeks without consequence.
I have no insurance history in the United States. Does that count against me?
It can affect how a quote comes back, because carriers use history as one input among several. It does not prevent you from getting covered. What helps is describing your situation accurately up front — how long you have been driving, what you held abroad, whether there were claims — so the quote reflects reality rather than a worst-case assumption.
Can he explain how Georgia coverage compares to what I had before?
That is a large part of what he does. Bring the old policy if you still have it, even in another language or currency. Mark will line it up against a Georgia equivalent and point out where the protection is comparable and where it is not.
Insurance conversations have confused me in the past. Will this be different?
He will not promise that, but he will not use vocabulary you have not agreed on either. Mark tends to explain a coverage by describing a situation it would apply to, then asking whether that situation is relevant to you. If something is still unclear, saying so is genuinely useful rather than an inconvenience.
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