I take pictures, insist on a walk-around, and insist the employee on the walk-around with me notes all observed defects. Sometimes, they'll say "don't worry ab

I take pictures, insist on a walk-around, and insist the employee on the walk-around with me notes all observed defects. Sometimes, they'll say "don't worry about it". I politely, hopefully somewhat adroitly and politically, insist. In many situations, e.g. storm damage, I've taken to taking a bunch of pictures -- maybe also a video, in which all the observations "hang together" and have contemporary commentary. I may never need to use this, but digital memory's cheap, these days, and it also saves me from worry about trying to recall details at a later date. Just yesterday, I was looking in on an older artist friend who has a combination of care-givers and an handyman through the house on a daily basis. Part of one of her heavier, wall-mounted ceramics had crashed to the floor, with the top end leaning against the dining room table. What happened? I'm not sure (the friend is confused, at times). But I grabbed my phone and took some pictures. The handyman probably has it cleaned up by now. But if something needs to be done -- even just an insurance claim, depending on the details of their insurance that I don't currently know -- I can supply the pictures. On the other hand, I feel a bit at times like I'm expressing/demonstrating paranoia. And the whole "surveillance society" thing. I try to limit this to immediately relevant subjects/events, in my own life. Not "watching the neighbors".