Part 7 · Appendix — Taking Ownership
07·CONV
What Conveys
Three tiers: what is part of the house and included without exception, what is intended to stay but could be separated, and the furniture — essentially none of which is leaving.
Most houses hand a buyer a short list of what stays behind. This one is unusual in the opposite direction: almost nothing is going. Everything below is sorted into three tiers, from “part of the house, no exception” through “intended to stay” to the furniture, which is available by agreement because it is not leaving either way.
This is a record of the sale rather than a description of the building — what came with the house when it changed hands, not what the house permanently is. That is why it sits in the appendix alongside the rest of the handover: it is read against the purchase agreement once, and after that it is history.
The purchase agreement governs
| Tier | What it covers | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Part of the house | Solar, batteries and the EV charger; every kitchen appliance; the bar and entertaining built-ins; the garage overhead racks; the built-in smart devices | Included, no exception — these would not be removed even if a buyer asked. |
| 2 — Intended to convey | The whole network setup; the whole media room setup; the washer and dryer | Staying. Separable only if a buyer specifically does not want it. |
| 3 — Furniture | Essentially everything in the house, from the downstairs sectional to the beds | None of it is leaving, so all of it is available — by separate agreement. |
Tier 1 — part of the house
These are not negotiable items on a list; they are parts of the building. They were specified into the house, they are wired, plumbed, or bolted into it, and they would not be removed even if a buyer asked for that. Each one has its own chapter in this manual, so a new owner inherits the documentation along with the equipment.
| Included with the house | Documented in |
|---|---|
| Tesla solar array and both Powerwalls — permanently part of the house | Electrical & Energy |
| Tesla Wall Connector — the hardwired EV charger in the garage | EV Charging |
| Every kitchen appliance, no exception — including the BlueStar range | Kitchen |
| The bar and entertaining built-ins — the triple-tap kegerator, the beverage fridge, and the built-in refrigeration | Bar & Butler’s Pantry |
| The garage overhead storage racks — all three | Garage |
| The built-in smart devices — the ecobee thermostat, the front-door lock, the video doorbell, the garage controller, and the irrigation controller | Ecobee · Security & Access · Irrigation |
The accounts come with them
Tier 2 — intended to convey
All of this is staying with the house. It differs from tier 1 in one respect only: it is separable. If a buyer specifically did not want a piece of it — already owns better network gear, has no use for a projector — it could be sold or dealt with separately rather than forced on the sale. Absent that, it stays.
| Intended to stay | Documented in |
|---|---|
| The entire network setup — the gateway, switches, access points and the cabling they run on | Network & Connectivity |
| The entire media room setup — projector, screen, receiver, amplifier, speakers and subwoofer | Media Room |
| The washer and dryer | Laundry |
Two footnotes worth having in front of you. The washer and dryer are a good pair and worth leaving — the alternative is paying someone to haul them away, which serves nobody. And the small streaming and game devices stacked on top of the media room equipment are handled individually rather than as part of “the media room setup”:
| Device | Position |
|---|---|
| Roku streaming player | Can stay — name it in the contract if you want it. |
| Xbox console | Can stay; it is not going with the sellers. Name it in the contract if you want it. |
| Small network switch | Stays with the house — it is part of the room’s wired network, not a loose device. |
| Steam Machine (the orange-faced gaming PC) | Does not stay. It goes with the owners. |
Tier 3 — the furniture
This is the unusual part, and it is worth reading even by a buyer who assumes the answer is no. Essentially nothing is being taken. Unlike a typical move, what is leaving with the sellers is small, and zero furniture of any kind is going with them. Every piece in the house is therefore available to convey by agreement — and selling it off piecemeal would be more trouble than simply leaving it in place, which is the sellers’ honest preference.
The notable pieces:
- A very large Pottery Barn sectional downstairs — around $5,000 retail, bought on a large sale. It is upholstered in Sunbrella fabric, so it is genuinely durable and stain-resistant rather than merely large.
- A large dining room table, with extra chairs.
- A rotating rocking recliner — large and comfortable without being oversized.
- A set of at least four barstools.
- All of the beds, including a very nice motion (adjustable) bed in the master. It is a split base; most buyers would want a new headboard and new mattresses of their own, but the base itself is on the table.
- Plenty of smaller items besides.
What this makes possible
How tier 3 actually works
Also staying — spares and consumables
Small, easy to overlook, and the difference between a first weekend spent at the hardware store and a first weekend spent enjoying the house. Each is documented on its own page: spare furnace filters and a box of assorted fuses (Heating & Cooling), a large inventory of spare drip-irrigation parts (Irrigation), the keg-line cleaning kit and CO2 hardware (Bar & Butler’s Pantry), and a spare projector lamp (Media Room).
A quantity of the house’s own paint is left behind as well — the exterior color, the interior wall grey, and the trim white — so touch-ups match rather than approximate. The colors and codes are recorded in the paint schedule in Part 6 · Reference.
Still to pin down
Two items in the house sit outside the three tiers above and have not been placed on either side of the line yet. They are listed here rather than left to be discovered at the walkthrough:
- to confirm The spare upright refrigerator/freezer in the garage back bay — see Garage.
- to confirm The Tesla Mobile Connector — the portable charger hanging in its bag beside the Wall Connector. The Wall Connector itself is tier 1 and is not in question. See EV Charging.