If we say Jarrod
and Brandi, Darrell Sheets, Barry Weiss and Dave Hester, and you say Storage Wars, you’re likely a fan of the
A&E hit that pits treasure seekers against each other to win storage
lockers and sell the goods inside.
More than 5
million viewers tune in to new episodes of Storage
Wars each week. But while it’s fun to watch the fights and finishes, what
wouldn’t be so fun is if your personal belongings and collections were on the
other side.
Sadly, that’s
what can happen if you were to pass away and the storage locker or even safe
deposit box remains unpaid or undiscovered by your family. That’s why the team
at FindYourPolicy.com offers safety deposit and storage locker registry along
with the opportunity to register your life insurance policy.
In an earlier
feature, we shared the story of Michael Hartmann, the Find Your Policy
co-founder whose father passed away and had to search for information regarding
his father’s life insurance policy. Armed with his knowledge of the life
insurance industry, Michael and his brother Edmund started FindYourPolicy.com,
the nation’s only life insurance registry.
Registration on
the site is free—you are asked to fill out information on the company who holds
the life insurance policy and the last four digits of the deceased’s Government
Issued Personal Identification number, which is your Social Security number in
the United States. Through registering on the site, your loved ones have one,
central location to turn to that won’t change addresses. In turn, you also can
search the FindYourPolicy.com database to find a beneficiaries’ life insurance
policy.
Owners of your
storage locker and safe deposit box likely won’t contact your loved ones
regarding your valuables. Don’t wait for the folks at Storage Wars to find it—register it on FindYourPolicy.com.
“The entire
process takes no more than two minutes to register on a database that never goes
away,” Hartmann says. “It’s a great safety net, and it’s free.”
Ready to protect your loved ones? Visit
FindYourPolicy.com and register your policy for free or e-mail
info@findyourpolicy.com. To link up on social media sites, visit www.findyourpolicy.blogspot.com, on Delicious by clicking here or follow on Twitter: @FindUrPolicy.
“TO BE THE BEST IN SERVING OUR MEMBERS BY PROVIDING PEACE OF MIND THAT THEIR BENEFICIARIES RECEIVE THEIR INHERITANCE”
1 comment:
I thought that FindYourPolicy was the most ingenius idea to hit the Web since I first learned about it. I've even told several other people about it. But reading this article, the thought occurred to me - my mother is so organized, I have always assumed that she's carefully documented my parents' life insurance and investment accounts so that my sisters and I can easily access them when our parents pass away. And I know that my parents have a will. But it's an awkward conversation to have - to ask her if we'll be able to find everything and to keep track of it all over the years.
Now that I realize that FindYourPolicy only asks for company information (like which bank or insurance company), and not account numbers, I'm just going to ask my mom to register at FindYourPolicy. That way, no matter what, all of my siblings or our kids could access the information with Grammy's birthdate and the last four of her SSN.
Thanks for this post!
--Ruth in Pismo Beach, CA
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