Keeping a Household Inventory and Protecting Valuable Records

Michael T. Olexa and Sean Olevnik

Release Date: 1/17/2024

Reviewed At: 11/26/2023

DOI: 10.32473/edis-dh138-2003

Family and Consumer Sciences

Abstract

A disaster strikes. Your home and possessions are destroyed. Will you be able to pick up the pieces? You will, if you: keep an up-to-date household inventory and keep this and other valuable documents in a secure location. This publication provides details about these two tasks.

About this Publication

This document is DH138 (formerly DH0207), one of a series of the Food and Resource Economics Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date May 2003. Revised January 2016, October 2019, and November 2023. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication. The funding for the revision of this publication was provided by the James S. and Dorothy F. Wershow Endowment. This publication is part of the Disaster Handbook, a component of the Comprehensive Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Education Module. There are ten Disaster Handbook documents by Olexa and Olevnik: DH138, DH199, DH200, DH201, DH202, DH203, DH204, DH206, DH215, and DH219.

About the Authors

Michael T. Olexa, professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, and director, Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Law; and Sean Olevnik, senior legal researcher and student, UF Levin College of Law; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.

How to Cite

Fegan, R., & Olexa, M. T. (1969). Keeping a Household Inventory and Protecting Valuable Records. EDIS, 2003(12). https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-dh138-2003

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Michael Olexa

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professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, and director, UF/IFAS Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Law, and member, Florida Bar

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