Home Security Safes
Many often assume that safes are for people with large estates or mansions. You
don’t need to be rich or have a large house to contemplate buying a home security
safe. Safes are not just for expensive jewellery and watches. You may have other
items that are not necessarily valuable in monetary terms, but have intrinsic or
sentimental value for the owner. These items may be works of art, antique objects
or jewellery.
Other people use a safe to store computer data on CD/DVD’s or sensitive documents
such as certificates that might get damaged during a fire, flood or burglary.
The following is the kind of items you may want to keep in your safe...
Personal Documentation
- Marriage certificate
- Copy of will
- Copy of passport
- Copy of separation/divorce papers
- Copy of college degree
- Copy of professional license
- Birth certificate
- Copy of health information (vaccinations, hospitalizations)
- Social Security Card
- Military records, medals etc..
Real and Personal Property
- Deeds, titles, title insurance for home
- Deeds, title, title insurance for auto(s)
- Deeds, titles, title insurance for any other property you own
- Computer data CD/DVDs
- Videotape/DVD inventory of house
- Copy of homeowner’s insurance
- Copy of receipts for big-ticket items like furnishings
- Coins, jewellery, etc.
- Copy of receipts for home improvements
Financial/Business
- Copy of employment contract
- Health policy details
- Pension policy details
- Original prospectuses and sales materials for any limited partnerships
- Original stock certificates (if not held in street name, which is the recommended
form of ownership)
- Savings bonds
- Bonds and Treasury securities (if not held in street name)
Make sure a responsible family member or friend is aware of your safe, where it
is kept, and how to gain access to it, should something happen to you.