Be a Smarter Homeowner

Welcome to the Be A Smarter Homeowner Podcast, today your hosts John Bodrozic and Beth Dodson are focusing on what a home inventory is and the reasons why they are recommended. As a homeowner, you may have not even thought about doing an inventory on your home, but if you need to make a claim it can be very helpful. Not just for insurance claims, home inventories become handy in managing money and estate planning as well. Tune in to this episode to get organized on maintaining and protecting your largest asset and expense, your home.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• [01:00] What does it mean to take a home inventory and what should you record?
• [04:29] Beth gives advice on ways of doing inventory on the items in your home depending on what has value and is important to you, i.e., photos, video, and spreadsheets
• [06:35] Different tools and ways to take your home inventory
• [13:00] The importance of a home inventory to ease insurance processes and claims
• [21:35] Using tools to create a better relationship between consumer and insurance company and evaluating your insurance policy
• [27:00] Home inventory for estate planning, trusts & wills

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• There are many different ways to take your home inventory and different things to record- make sure to record what has value to you personally
• Updating your home inventory is important, especially after remodels and updates- this includes updating the value of your homeowner's insurance policy to value these changes
• Technology can be a big help in the home inventory process in taking video or photos and then being able to record these items digitally- making it easy to submit to insurance companies as needed

• Home inventories can also come in great use if you ever move to a new house- you can manage the move with a moving company more easily

Links Mentioned:

www.beasmarterhomeowner.com

www.homezada.com

The Be A Smarter Homeowner podcast is hosted by John Bodrozic and Elizabeth Dodson, the co-founders of HomeZada.

The word 'home' means different things to different people. In this episode John and Elizabeth discuss various types of homes, from farms to townhouses as well as all aspects of home management. Home management includes collectibles, the physical structure of the home and keeping track of finances and documents.

To save money and time, a digital home management system could assist in streamlining all home assets in one place.

With a digital management system, you can make the specific decisions for personal home possessions and finances that may be different to your neighbour, and HomeZada could be the solution. HomeZada does the thinking for you and is accessible via your mobile phone or desktop.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• [01:00] Welcome to be a smarter homeowner podcast[Text Wrapping Break]
• [04:00] What does the collection of assets mean?[Text Wrapping Break]
• [08:00] Inventory tracking of your equipment and assets[Text Wrapping Break]
• [13:00] How many maintenance management tasks does an average home need?[Text Wrapping Break]
• [17:00] Maintaining paper documents in the house

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• There are a vast amount of types of homes and a variety of family structures and living situations.[Text Wrapping Break]
• There is a wide range of home assets which need maintaining, from collectables to personal finance documents.[Text Wrapping Break]
• To save money and time, a digital home management system could assist in streamlining all home assets in one place.

BIO:

Elizabeth Dodson is a focused technology entrepreneur with successful skills in business development, sales, marketing, and finance. Over 20 years of successful management of revenue producing partners. Great organizational skills balancing multiple roles and responsibilities as an entrepreneur. Drive and increase company revenues and user growth for a consumer technology solution with a partner solution to support the homeowner market.

John Bodrozic has start-up entrepreneur experience beginning with bootstrapping, profitable growth, securing venture and corporate venture funding, acquisitions of technology companies, and selling a business to a publicly traded company.

In today's episode, Beth Dodson and John Bodrozic share a bit of their background in entrepreneurship and their journey as homeowners. Then, Beth and John explain the inspiration behind HomeZada and what the process was like developing an all-in-one suite of apps to manage your home. Then, the two discuss why they wanted to start the Be A Smarter Homeowner Podcast. Tune in as Beth and John talk about what type of homeowners they typically work with and what you can expect from future episodes of this show.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• [01:20] Beth Dodson and John Bodrozic share their entrepreneurship backgrounds and their journey as homeowners.
• [13:00] How Beth came up with the idea for HomeZada.
• [18:30] The process behind developing an all-in-one suite of apps to manage your home.
• [24:35] The reason Beth and John decided to start the Be A Smarter Homeowner podcast.
• [26:45] The types of homeowners that Beth and John work with on HomeZada.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• A lot of renters today are considering buying a home, and they don't understand what to do once they get into the home. This podcast will help people manage their homes.
• Being a first-time homeowner is a journey, and it takes time to learn how to manage and maintain your home.
• Managing multiple homes can be difficult without the proper solutions.
• On average, in the United States, a person lives in their home for five to seven years.
• Depending on where you are in the homeowner's journey, this podcast has a vast array of content that you can explore.

LINKS MENTIONED:

Be A Smarter Homeowner

www.beasmarterhomeowner.com

HomeZada

www.homezada.com

BIO:

Welcome to Be a Smarter Homeowner podcast, where hosts, Beth Dodson and John Bodrozic are dedicated to helping you save money and get organized while managing, maintaining, protecting, improving, and eventually buying or selling your largest financial asset and biggest expense, your home.

Discover how easy it is to be a smarter homeowner.

Having worked with homeowners for over 20 years, your co-hosts are two of the three co-founders of HomeZada, a digital home management software platform that helps you to manage everything about your home in one digital place.

Episodes of Be a Smarter Homeowner Podcast will feature John and Beth as they explore all the different aspects you need to know while owning a home; from home maintenance, home improvement projects, tracking your home finances, storing important documents, to creating a home inventory. With a focus on the financial impacts all of these things have on your home's value and the expense to own it, turn the complexities of homeownership into solutions that will make your life easy and stress free.

Being a homeowner can be costly and frustrating if you're not in the know.

The podcast will feature experts in the industry. And with your home likely being one of the largest purchases of your lifetime, these experts will keep you informed, offer you tips and tricks, and weigh in on the risks and benefits of all things related to homeownership.

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