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Never worry about records again

So...you`re sitting on a beach and you get a phone call from your neighbor: Your house just burned down. What would you do before you started trying to get home? Do you have your insurance agents number? Oh no! you think. All my records were in a box in my closet. Now they`re gone. What will I do?

Well, if you used an All-In-One Home Inventory and Asset Management System called "Computerize Your Assets", you could have been able to rest a little easier. With this system you would have had a list of insurance agents and their phone numbers, a list of all the contents in your home, and phone numbers for other agencies if needed. Not only that, you could print off a report of all your insurance policies and numbers, your assets, their original costs, current valuations in the case of special items and have computerized images of all your receipts, and pictures of your assets. Now you",re prepared to deal with your disaster.

"Computerize Your Assets" (CYA) lets you print out reports which could be stored off site in a safe deposit box, left with your accountant, or stored at a friend`s or relative`s house. All you would need to do is use another computer and view or print the reports as needed. In addition, you would have regular backups of your whole "CYA" system - programs, files, and information, which could be loaded on another system, in the event your computer was destroyed.

Hopefully, you will never have to use the features provided by CYA in an emergency, but like the Boy Scouts love to say: Always be prepared!