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With many recent disasters getting lots of media attention, people are seeing home destroyed. With people losing all their household items, having a good record of what’s in your home helps you recover funds from your insurance. Let’s look at three businesses that help people with this.

All of us have basically no idea of all the things we have in our house. No one keeps all of the receipts for things. With little documentation of property, the home inventory business moves in to help.

This business involves helping people create an inventory list. There are a few ways this can be done. This can be self-help, or a service that you provide. Let’s see what people are offering.

The first type of service that we will look at anyone can do as a home based business. Here you actually find clients who want to get an inventory list of what’s in their home. You will then photograph and categorize the important things in the house.

Then you organize this in a folder, or on a CD, along with necessary forms and paperwork for your client. He then has documentation of everything important for the insurance company, should it ever be needed. This should be stored away from the home in a safe place.

Other people are just selling a software program that helps homeowners do the work themselves. They follow the directions and use the forms to create a complete inventory file. Customers just purchase the software.

Still another style of home inventory business is storing data online. These companies have you join their website and put the data into your own personal folder. They then store this for you on their server.

This seems like a clever solution. You won’t lose your list. Your file is immediately in a safe place.

You can access and update your inventory anytime you want. You will be able to make hard copies if you want. This is just an added security.

For this type of service, you will be charged a monthly fee. This covers using the software, and being able to update your data anytime. This also covers securely storing your information.

This is a growing business as people see the need to know what they own in case something happens. There are good opportunities to offer services to these people. Perhaps you could operate your own home inventory company.

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