August 19, 2009 Great Landscape Design Ideas Not So Great Without Protection

Landscape Insurance With Live Asset Insurance is essential for landscape protection

The affect of landscaping on property value is well known. Unfortunately, what is often not considered by hardworking landscapers is the vulnerability of their efforts to a number of substantial threats from disasters – both natural and otherwise.  Acquiring landscape protection is necessary to ensure an excellent return on investment, as well as to undertake a landscaping project that is protected from the unexpected.

Defending Your Investment with Landscape Protection

Ideas for frontyard and backyard landscaping ideas abound, which means landscape designers will have no shortage of ways to create landscaping plans for their clients.  Considering how much can happen during the time from, say, a shipment of trees is ordered from a nursery to installation on the client’s premises, the need for a protecting those assets are clear. 

When evaluating the price of a landscaping project, factoring landscape insurance into the mix shows the client that you not only care about your investment, but their investment also.  You can avoid the financial pains that would follow if the client’s items sustained damage in the interim, too.

To have an entire landscape project destroyed without an adequate insurance policy is to have your investment depleted along with your client’s time.

The True Value of Landscaping Design Ideas

Here are just a handful of reasons why landscaping needs extra attention. According to Arborday.org, the value of landscaping extends far beyond aesthetic appeal:

• “The net cooling effect of a young, healthy tree is equivalent to ten room-size air conditioners operating 20 hours a day.”-U.S. Department of Agriculture   
  • “In one study, 83% of realtors believe that mature trees have a “strong or moderate impact” on the salability of homes listed for under $150,000; on homes over $250,000, this perception increases to 98%.” -Arbor National Mortgage & American Forests  
    • “Trees properly placed around buildings can reduce air conditioning needs by 30 percent and can save 20 – 50 percent in energy used for heating.”-USDA Forest Service  
      • “In laboratory research, visual exposure to settings with trees has produced significant recovery from stress within five minutes, as indicated by changes in blood pressure and muscle tension.”-Dr. Roger S. Ulrich Texas A&M University

      

      Why Risk Your Landscape Design Ideas When A Solution Exists?

      The fates of these valuable landscape investments should not be left up to nature’s whims when there is landscape insurance available. Live Asset Insurance is perfectly suited to provide landscape protection with reasonable and efficient policies that will not leave your hard work in the wind (no pun intended, probably).