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Importance Of Keeping Insurance Inventory

By Kerri Turner


An insurance inventory is a documentation that is used to negotiate replacement cost with your insurance company. It should be taken way before an incident happens. The owner of the property takes a tour together with the staff from the company to assess the valuables just in case the owner needs to make a claim in future.

When an incident happens and all your property is gone, you sit around and wonder where to start from, what to say and how to cope with the loss. A cover makes the experience less overwhelming. Having created a record will save the situation as the company takes the responsibility of replacing the property. At this juncture you will not remember how much time you consumed in the process of making the inventory.

Keeping an inventory is a very wise decision. It comes in handy when that fire destructs those valuables that took you so long to acquire. It came in handy in a situation of John Brown who had taken a video of his house to show it his pal when the inevitable happens. There was fire in the neighborhood that swept his house and burnt it to ashes. He is lucky to have taken the documentation because he used it to negotiate replacement for his property.

Mr. Brown might have seen the exercise as bothersome and time consuming had it not be for sharing with a friend. He did it because it was fun and the fun paid him well. If you make documentation with the idea of fun you will do it time and again and it will help you maintain the value in your possessions.

If the victim casualties are not prepared enough the alternative will be to recall the possessions from ones memory. After the loss the state of mind of the owner might not allow him / her to accurately remember every single detail about each valuable. He may even forget some valuable possessions. Trying to remember makes the wound caused by the loss fresh all the time.

To make burglary, floods, fire and other casualties less painful it is crucial that you make a property list. Valuables such as automobiles, furniture, clothes and other personal possessions should make an inventory list which should be accurate and detailed enough. Remembering after the incident might leave out some details and some valuables too.

When you sit down and decide to secure your future by inventing an insurance list, just sit down with pen and paper or any writing material record them. Next step should be to value them register the prices you expect the insurance company to consider. Bear mind that in your item list will be clearer if it has furniture, clothes, and electronics categories. Some things in some categories have their value appreciating while others have it depreciating.

Some tips are necessary in order to make sure that the insurance inventory list is effective. Take good care of the sales receipt you obtain from the property shops. Attach them to the records. Also take clear pictures of the house or property and even a video tape and safely keep them together with the inventory records far away from your house. Indicate the serial numbers and even engrave your invented ones if possible. It helps in the claim process.




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