Someone Broke into Your Home: What Now?

You arrive home after a Friday night dinner with the wife to discover your front door's glass shattered. As you enter the home, you see papers scattered over the floor, the couch upturned and all your glasses in the kitchen in shattered pieces on the stone tile. To make matters worse, you learn that your 72-inch flat screen and several other valuable items have gone missing. The total cost of the damage and stolen property comes out to $2,416. That's the average cost of a burglary to homeowners, but the emotional toll of having your home broken into can't be understated either. What do you do after someone has ransacked and burglarized your home? Call the Police First, you need to contact law enforcement because you need documentation that a burglary happened. This also helps you collect insurance money, and if the burglar gets arrested in the future, the documentation serves as additional evidence that they had previously burglarized your home, someone broke into your