Finding Peace of Mind for Your Home Away From Home

Title insurance from Vested Land Services LLC, the consumer's title agent, will protect the title to your home or second home.  But how do you protect that second home from a distance.? The NY Times has an answer.

"Nathan Lavertue and Geneva Simms keep tabs on their country house in Dutchess County with a range of smart home tools.

"Geneva Simms and Nathan Lavertue were driving to their country house in Dutchess County one recent weekend when there was yet another spring snowstorm. But when they arrived late that night, their home, which was built around 1780 and was once a Quaker meetinghouse and a stop on the Underground Railroad, wasn’t bitterly cold. That is because during his lunch break in Brooklyn, Mr. Lavertue had turned on the heat remotely, using his smartphone.

“We have three cameras — two exterior and one interior — four Nest thermostats, two Echo Dots, one Echo Show, one traditional Echo and 10 smart lights. And also the Nest smoke detector,” said Mr. Lavertue, a global experience design director for IBM, who installed the equipment himself. “The cameras are for security, but they provide plenty of entertainment. I have really funny footage of Geneva running after a U.P.S. truck.” 

Seems very smart to me - to read the full column, go to
nytimes.com/2018/04/13/realestate/finding-peace-of-mind-for-your-home-away-from-home.html

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