Students standing up to burglars at last!
What with the new university terms set to start, the article “Freshers’ week means rich pickings for burglars” couldn’t be better timed. It is about time students had some help protecting their belongings, they will certainly have their hands full in the weeks ahead.
Shockingly, one in three students will become a victim of the dreaded ubiquitous burglar, which is all the more reason for security to be upped and contents insurance to be in place. Burglars see students at rich pickings on account of their bountiful possessions. Let’s face it, students accumulate expensive gadgets like there’s no tomorrow!
Saga Insurance have a free ‘Student Survival’ guide book to help students help themselves as well as offering really handy contents packages. The most important feature it offers is that windows and doors in student digs are checked for security which is the main point of entry for thieves as well as other ways to drastically reduce the occurrence of burglary.
The people at Saga have, if you have a contents package with them, added on to your insurance package a student appendage offering up to £3,500 protection for your children’s valuable possessions. This will entitle you to cover when possessions are in transit as well as at the new students accommodation. What will definitely appeal is that downloaded music and items of a digital content are also protected.
Before you move in permanently to your new student accommodation, check out the security of the building looking out for security lights, locks and burglar alarms. Marking all belongings with a UV marker is highly recommended as well as lights on timer switches (to give the impression you are home) and getting your student possession insurance in place.
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