How to Take a Home Inventory for Insurance and Tax Purposes

We all think it will never happen to us: a house fire, a hurricane, or some other calamity destroys our house and everything in it. Of course, these disasters happen every day to people across the country; they aren’t uncommon. All of us have homeowners insurance to pay for replacement items, but in the event of a disaster, could we prove to an insurance company that we actually owned...