Every system in it, photographed and identified. What it cost. How old it is. What condition it is in. What it will need, and roughly when.
Nobody has had this for a house before. Cars have had it for thirty years.
It is yours. It stays with the house. When you sell, the buyer gets it, and it is worth more than any other document in the transaction because it is the only one nobody wrote to persuade them.
Something goes wrong. The emergency page has every shutoff and where it is. Read it once now, so you know it is there.
A contractor is coming. Give them the section for whatever they are touching. Make, model, serial, what has been done to it. They will quote faster and guess less.
You get the quarterly list. Every item on it points back here. The list says what; this says why.
You are thinking about a project. The last section is what is coming and what you might want to consider. Start there.
You are selling. Hand this to your agent. Then hand it to the buyer.
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The Home Manual · Edition 1, unaudited · Compiled September 11, 2026 · Built 2016 · 4,365 sq ft · 89 systems tracked, 14 read from equipment plates
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