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A home inventory for your home insurance

Spring Cleaning - Good time to take home inventory so in case you submit a homeowners claim, you have a record of your items.

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A home inventory for your home insurance in CT

 

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Are you moving to a new home? Perhaps you're upgrading to a bigger home because of an addition to the family or maybe your spring cleaning. Whatever the reason, now might be an excellent time to review your inventory for your home insurance in CT. Perhaps one of the most stressful of all exercises, moving home at least has the advantage of helping enable you to find all those possessions you had forgotten you owned, some of which may be quite valuable!

Keeping an accurate and detailed inventory of your possessions is essential when you come to file your claim against your home insurance. This applies whether or not you own your own home, or are renting. Compiling an inventory should include the value of the item, but also serial numbers or identification numbers. Software is now available to assist you in drawing up an inventory of your possessions however a low-tech version which is just as effective is to write down details in a book and keep receipts in a separate folder.

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When the inventory is complete, make a few copies and keep them in a number of places away from the home in case of a catastrophe such as a fire destroys the home. Remember an accurate and detailed inventory may help speed up claims made against your home insurance in CT.

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Justin M. Cook

President, Curtin Insurance Agency, Inc

Bouvier Insurance - Curtin 

80 Norwich New London Tpke

Uncasville, CT 06382

Local: 860-848-2201 x319

Fax: 1-860-561-8778

jcook@binsurance.com

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