When contemplating your homeowners or renters insurance, consider this idea to speed things along. Use your digital camera and take pictures of all four walls in each room, close ups of opened drawers and closets, bathroom cabinets, garage contents opened tool boxes, etc.
You get the jist, nothing is to be left un-photographed. Even photograph your carpets and ceiling lighting, fixtures and appliances, window coverings, and even out in the yard from all sides of the house including in the storage/garden shed inside and out. Don't feel like all things need to be pristine as you are photographing contents not entering a photo contest. If carpets have tags, make sure you take a close up of them as well.
Transfer all of the photographs on to a CD and put in the safety deposit box. For all important papers, either scan them yourself or have some one do it for you and also put that information on to a CD and, you guessed it, put it in the safety deposit box. Don't forget to do your drivers license, social sec card, medical insurance card, credit cards as well, both front and back of all of them.
This is so valuable to have as forbidding a disaster to happen and all things were to be lost in a flood, fire etc. You would have no way of knowing exactly what you had in drawers, cabinets etc as this is absolute proof that you had the items. As well as you have saved your important papers as well just in case you had a loss or even a total loss that you are able to make a copy of the household contents CD.
Give that to your insurance adjuster when needed speeding up the process of not waiting to get the itemized list together and without doubt forgetting items. This gives total proof of ownership as well as size, color etc. Also with your important papers and even special photographs scanned as well. With the CD you will have instant access and copies of all of the original papers and contact names, telephone numbers and account numbers, too.
Hope this helps many but if it helps just one, it is all worth sharing the information. I told my insurance agent of this and they now tell all customers of this and they also send out printed information detailing the same to all new and old customers alike. You may want to do an updated one once a year to reflect new or acquired items in the home. Don't forget to also include your jewelry items also!
Source: I did, when I had to list everything for my insurance company to write my policy and did NOT want to itemize every item in the place.
By Beau from Vancouver, WA
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