Chapter VIII of VIII · Transfer Home
The home's knowledge should not disappear at closing
A homeowner-controlled, transferable record: the buyer receives the systems, documents and service history the seller kept.
What moves
A transfer hands the whole record to the next owner. Sections cannot be left out and entries cannot be marked private. The only way to hold something back is to remove it before you start, and removing an entry deletes it.
- Home Overview, with its “Presented by” credit
- Home Systems
- Maintenance, upcoming and completed
- Documents
- Trusted Vendors and their notes
- Home Inventory
How it works
The owner starts the transfer in the manual with the buyer’s email address, a link lifetime of 7, 14 or 30 days, and an optional note. The manual produces a one-time claim link, which the owner sends to the buyer.
Nothing moves until the buyer accepts. At that point the buyer becomes the record’s owner, access ends for the seller and anyone else on the record, and the transfer is logged. A link that goes unused expires.
During the controlled launch, WHL adds any other members the new owner approves, each as an owner, agent, editor or viewer.
What the buyer gets
After nine years in a house, a seller knows which breaker feeds the garage, which electrician rewired it and when the tankless water heater went in. Whatever made it onto the record is in the buyer’s hands the day they accept the link.
If the manual is mentioned in a listing, keep the claim modest, for example:
A completed home manual can help a buyer understand the property and how it has been cared for.
In the demonstration
The Oakridge demonstration shows where a transfer starts in a finished manual. It does not run one.