Shepard Insurance Insights
Category: Home Insurance
Covid Driven Changes. Thinking of making Renovations to Your Home?
Covid Driven Changes. Thinking of making Renovations to Your Home? Here are some Guide posts! You could refer to it as the next migration, or a flood of city dwellers to the suburbs. Whatever the term, real estate sales are robust, with an added objective to set up that remote office for the new electronic [...]
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Cashing Out!
Cashing Out! Required to Re-build, it Depends Currently there is a lot of dysfunction in this world, and one of the more prevalent is the cost to rebuild or repair a home, versus the real property value. Even with the Covid suburban rush of people buying homes, construction costs are still not reflective of what [...]
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Winter Fire Hazards
Winter Fire Hazards Take a moment to Prevent a Loss With seasonal temperatures beginning to arrive, it’s time to make sure as you bundle up that you take a moment to double check that you are up to date on prevention. "seasonal temperatures are beginning to arrive" In addition to removing leaves and cleaning gutters, [...]
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Cyber Virus
Cyber Virus Electronic Theft is Growing Exponentially! With the explosion of social media, video games, wireless security systems, and internet capable automobiles, we are witnessing an alarming increase in cyber-attacks on individuals. In the basic sense, this is having your personal electronic information hacked, exposing credit card information and your bank accounts to thieves. "cyber [...]
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Is it a Sign of the Times?
Is it a Sign of the Times? Is Covid the reason for an Increase in Auto thefts? It was announced by the Greenwich, CT police department that there have been 104 vehicle thefts in town since 1/1/2020. If we had the real data it would be of interest to know if there is a certain [...]
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Audit Your Protections
Audit Your Protections What are the tools you can or should have to be well protected? It is common today if you own a home, and especially a vacation or secondary property to have some type of alarm system to provide protections against the potential exposures that ownership comes with. Periodically it makes sense to [...]
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