Jan. 4, 2008 - Loss Mitigation

First and foremost, since I have ignored my blog for about a month, let me take this opportunity to say that I hope your Holidays (whatever it is you celebrate) were everything you were hoping they would be.  Fortunately I am back here in time to wish you health, happiness and prosperity in 2008.

On Christmas Eve some dastardly evil doer stole the table out of the lobby of the Condominium in which I live.  Since I am the President of the Board of Directors it fell to me to file the police report.  Des Plaines Police Officer Mike Meyers (honest) showed up and asked the usual questions. "Any signs of forced entry"?  "No sir".  "Anybody report any suspicious characters on the premises"?  "No sir".

There was no forced entry because no one has to force their way in.  As much as you harp on the fact that there are rules and regulations that need to be adhered to when you live in a Condominium environment, many people apparently think that they do not apply to them.  There is a reason you are asked to wait until the garage door closes behind you before you pull off.  There is a reason you are required to greet the delivery man, the pizza man and anybody else you don't personally know in the lobby.  That reason is security, loss mitigation if you will.

Thieves are wily enough without a member of the association giving them free access to the building.  They have been know to follow the mailman into the building or come in the garage door while the waste hauler is rolling the dumpster to the garbage truck.  There isn't too much you can do about that.

That's why, as a part of Condominium living, you, the resident of a Condominium, have to do everything in your power to help secure your environment.

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