No. All Points North Watch is a monthly service or one time service which does not require long term contracts. Invoicing is performed monthly, however clients may pre-pay for additional months, if they so choose.
Depending on your policy, many providers will refuse to cover damages which occur to a home that is vacant (the house is empty of personal items and furniture) or unoccupied (the house has personal items and furniture) for 30 days as these homes are considered at risk. Check with your carrier for your policy specifics.
However, many carriers will not require the purchase of an additional policy to cover your home when watch services are utilized and others may reduce the cost of the additional policy, if required.
Many people hire home watch services in addition to having a neighbor keep a key. Home watch professionals are trained to look for potential problems as opposed to having a neighbor come in to a situation which could have been prevented.
Yes. Our reports include pictures of the property in addition to a written explanation, even if we find no problems to report.
All Points North will assign one team member to perform inspections to each property. This ensures there are no questions about items which might look out of place as compared to a previous inspection, but are really normal, or issues which have been previously discussed with the owner, are not brought up as new issues. The only exception being, each property will have a designated back up team member who is well versed about the property in the event of the primary team member being out of the office.