Trooper Brian Young of the Grantsville West Virginia State Police sends advice to area residents, that with spring comes not only new growth in lawn and garden, it also creates growth in crime rate. He encourages everyone to take the time to record product and serial numbers in case of theft. This helps the police when locating stolen property to return it to the rightful owner, and creates a chain of evidence allowing them to get convictions of those who prey on home owners.
Recording those serial numbers can be an extra step of verifying ownership in the event some catastrophe, whether it’s theft, fire, earthquake, tornado, whatever natural disaster your portion of the world might offer, it’s another means of verifying ownership for your insurance claim.
It can be as simple as writing it down on the owner’s manual that came with your equipment. You can go a step further by safely logging that information in online. Or you can just bypass writing altogether and just snap some pictures of the serial number and save or print that image. It just takes a couple of minutes to record those serial numbers to protect your families hard earned property.
