Comments on: Two Home Inventory Tracking Apps to Insure Your Assets

By: Liv FÃ¸lling

Liv FÃ¸lling — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:17:01 +0000

I often need to look up data on my things, they get broken and the extensive guarantee in Norway makes it possible to complain and get it paid for by the manufacturer.
but I miss something tremendously. I need a program where I both register my belongings and can follow up changes, painting them, data on colour aso, new floor, walls, the maintenance of the house itself. It is a bother to register things by value in one plase and all over again somewhere else about other things sometimes even another. I need a program to work with on my house and belongings.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:57:59 +0000

Agree, when it comes to insurance in particulat I’d do both. First take a quick tour of the house with camera and then write down all of the valuable/expensive items.

By: M

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:15:56 +0000

I think these are great tools for people to use. I know a family who’s house burned down a few years ago. They had to sit and write down all the stuff they owned. If they had this type of information already recorded, they would not have had to go through such a painful and sad process while going through an emotional situation. I am going to give one of these a try. I dont think I’d put anything personal, but entering products is fine with me.

By: T.J. Mininday

T.J. Mininday — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:22:04 +0000

Well, I guess we’ll just leave it up to personal preference. I think both options will work for just about anyone. If you aren’t comfortable publishing your personal information online, so be it.

I’m just giving you a couple of ways to do it.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:38:01 +0000

Several problems with this. First, I’m not going to upload anything of value to a site that doesn’t have some measure of security (https). And I doubt I’m going to upload a copy of my last tax return along with a xerox of my birth certificate to any place on the internets. I agree with doing the video walk-through. You can catalog everything with video or pictures.

“Agreed, but would you want to have to refer to a video every time youâ€™d like to look something up? Probably depends on your insurance provider.”

Disagreed. How often do you have to hunt down the serial number on the back of your 61″ Toshiba? Not very often unless you get broken into monthly cause you live in the ghetto.

Take the video or pics. Multiple copies. Leave one at work, maybe one with a relative and maybe in a safe-deposit box if you have one. Done.

By: T.J. Mininday

T.J. Mininday — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:05:48 +0000

Agreed, but would you want to have to refer to a video every time you’d like to look something up? Probably depends on your insurance provider.

By: intact

intact — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:31:17 +0000

It is better to complete a walk through of your home with a video camera. You can add voice over commentary regarding special individual items. You can zoom in a manufacturer’s information on a-v equipment, computers, etc. Make multiple copies and store off site away from your home. Most people do not have the ambition to catalog their whole home via data entry.