Lockers in the open sea – your safe places to stash cash
It could be sooner or later end up in possession of documents or other portable devices of great value that should be kept in a safe place – like a safe offshore.
What kind of things we talk? All the precious documents. Things like automobiletTitles, Coins (rare), passports, bearer shares, citizenship papers, bills of sale, retirement records, school records, documents, trust, immigration documents, rare stamps, mortgage documentsand so on. You can also store data such as USB flash drives or DVD backups safely offsite.
A safe is also recommended by many experts for the purpose of succession planning. To view the contents of a safe for your heirs, without formalities is all that is necessary that another person has access and a key. This fact will be the successor of a signatory on the field. If you do not want to have access to all life, holdthe key and leave them to be delivered in a sealed envelope with instructions, after your death or disability.
If a bank or an independent company safe?
In general, the best solution is to rent a safe in a reliable, first-class bank – not just a box. Many banks require that you also have an account with them to help and be approved payments for rent in BoxAdvance.
Why a vault of a bank as an independent company? As an independent company seem to bend or stolen with great regularity. As a public storage facilities, are also often used by less desirable characters.
On the other hand, a suit of private storage do not require identification to open a window. You can all give them a nom de plume. Customers on a plastic card that can be approved withoutTo register as this box is not connected to the system of payment or invoice, you are responsible to pay several years in advance. This avoids opening the window and its contents sold for nonpayment of rent.
One customer told me the sad story of how after a long hospitalization for cancer, found that his chest had been opened in a public self-storage unit after a year for nonpayment of rent. The contents were auctioned. He had a collection of antique stock certificates, thewere unnecessary, such as stock, but of great value to collectors. One had a rare original signature of the inventor Thomas Edison. They were disposed of as waste paper.
The best countries for Offshore boxes
Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg are traditional havens of safety, which are ideal for safes. A good land for a box is where you do not need a passport or go through a formal border controls. This is notthe case of Switzerland – if you use your chances in one of the many border crossings!
Vienna and Zurich are also convenient to the national airline hub. You can easily pass through these countries if they are among other cities. Just take a break long enough to see your stash, you insert or remove what you need. To secure a room, you do not need to seek a tax haven. Each country peaceful and stable environment in which property rightsaspects is well.
Almost all banks offer safe deposit boxes. If your home in a country where you have no problems, no matter how much you use. But you should at least have a trusted person who knows the box and can access it. If you have an accident, it is important that your email will not be forgotten or abandoned.
Keep the key to safety!
If you open the box, consider the storage of keys in asealed envelope with the office, the custodian bank or your own private banker. In this way, make sure that the key to be found on their person or in your possession by anyone with dubious intentions, as your about to be-ex-wife.
Many bank deposit boxes are two buttons – one is hidden. The second (a passkey general) is held by the bank. Only two, the box can be opened.
In recent high-tech safes, there are no keys.These cabinets can be opened only with a fingerprint scanning. Another solution is boxing in places where they use a combination lock. Expert safe-crackers are good at opening locks combo. They are less secure key complex – in our experience. We are not even fans of numbers stored secrets. Why? Because we have more than once an important link or you forgot your password.
Make sure the box, without ID, if you loseand should reach your backup that was performed in a reflection in the box! Want to see some banks, especially in Zurich, and photocopy your ID each time the box – even if they are known. Wherever your box, then you should at some of the employees who are able to access your computer without an ID, you do not need any introduction. Tell them to take a good look and remember that in person, so you always have access to your box or without the money to the accountIdentification. Tell them your favorite joke or a silly story and tell them to remember, so you can say once again, many years later. Then you remember!
Shhh … Can You Keep a Secret?
Do not just take a secure key and keep it on a gold chain around his neck at all times. This is something to do movie villains.
If you want something a secret, always think one step ahead. Do not tell anyone. Leave the keys and instructions provided with thepersonal banker or someone you trust implicitly. Even thinking about the future! Let's death appears in the box – in case something happens. This can be written onto a CD or can be in the form of video. Your box will be opened after about one or two years of inactivity – if and when you do not pay annual fees.
Sometimes a sure to be forgotten for decades. Nearly 70 years after the alleged criminal mastermind and billionaire Al Capone died in prison, a bank closedIt was once found in Chicago owned, have a long-forgotten lock, secret underground vault registered in his name. His money was never found. A national television station bought the rights to drill and re-open this time "show live on television." Many people, myself included, tuned to the opening. We thought it would be an event to explore the fabulous tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt to be the same. What has happened? It 'been a good show with a disappointment at the end. Apparently someonewith a spare key to the vault of Al Capone-work that had arrived. Nothing of any interest has been in the sepulcher.
You Will Die With Your Secrets?
Most offshore banks require that you have a bank account and that they have a right of withdrawal, the annual rent payments from this account secure. These statements and automatic payments, you can suspect died many years earlier, diedand your box is perforated. So, your banker should probably rely on your instructions (not your case) if you do not hear from you, be for some time, said open 3 years. Better yet, your banker should be instructed "after 3 years of no contact, please contact my attorney, XYZ, or your children, spouse, best friend." A trusted person to make the instructions, to do with the resources on your death, disability or death. Your banker should be toldwhat to do and how and when it is for people who know for sure, when you are contacted.
Perhaps a trusted person who has nothing to gain, you should sue, sealed a power delegated or assigned as a valid will, so that all ends are connected to be abandoned. Without this, in Switzerland, for example, the bank keeps your money straight! It 'so simple. In English-speaking countries there is usually a law escheat dormant accounts, abandoned safeContent. In England, unclaimed money and property go to "The Crown". In California are included and accounts dormant for over seven years to the pension fund of teachers'.
In these cases, the heirs have to maintain only a very limited time. Most never do, why not learn of the assets.
Anonymous your safe in an Austrian palace
The Swiss and the Austrians are characterized, in general, is running a good security. In almost allCountries that ID is required to rent a safe. But in Austria, which is at the time of writing there is a company once safes anonymous. It 'been many years and was recommended by a reader. It 'a good place to keep the store second passports, bank cards and other tools from PT you do not want in your country.
The company has its facilities in the basement of a building in Vienna. It's called the safe and its Web siteIf you're http://www.dassafe.com in Vienna, you can expect the first visit in Auerspergstrasse remain in business for a long time, but how long can take anonymous business is questionable.
Other recommended safety in Austria at the bank branches Schoeller (where no key is required – access is controlled by an electronic scanning of fingerprints) and Raiffeisen Bank enclave 'secret'Young wood.
Safe Reliable Company in Prague
Another service that we know is safe in Prague Czech Republic You need a valid identity document to open a window. The service will offer extremely professional and discreet and do not require ID for future access. Pay up to five years in advance. Access to the main vault is self service with a swipe card system at the main entrance. You can insert the card door and each key. You can then captureAccess to your safe without the need to take any employee or identify in any way.
This particular company is a joint venture between the Czech banks and the chain of moneychangers Chequepoint. And 'since 1992. They are located in the basement of an old bank building on the famous Wenceslas Square. Welcome visitors from the past and see the facilities. The address is 28 13 Ijna The site is not currently available inEnglish, but if you visit is the English language.