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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.

Many people don’t have a good idea of all the valuable things in their homes. Very few people have the time, or interest. to document all the items in their home. This is where the home inventory business comes in.

Making a home inventory is quite simple. There are different services you might offer people. You can help them do it themselves, or go to their home and do it for them.

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.

Yet another way to do home inventory is through a website. Here, you use the software on the website to create and update your inventory file. You store your file with the website also.

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

You can access your inventory list from any computer. You can choose to make a copy also. Just in case some how you couldn’t get it off the website.

I think this is a great option. The website will have a subscription type fee structure. You pay for the use of the programs and storing your data.

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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