I recommend maintaining a file with all your purchase invoices so your beneficiaries will be horrified by how much you spent on your gear
Also, I have a couple relatives and because I’m a really mean spirited person I plan to give one of my main speakers to one and the other main speaker to the other and let them figure it out.
I keep a personal file with all my passwords and other info on how I process on my bills between credit cards and direct bank payments so people can follow my monthly financial activity which is a very nice thing to do. This info also includes a list of beneficiaries for all my accounts which is also nice to do.
Try not to include percentages as to how your estate will be split up because that just means it will all be appraised and liquidated. This will make it difficult for your family members to pursue what they want and that’s really sad. recommend individually identifying who gets what for the significant items, that’s a very humane to do and that way key family items will not be required to be appraised and possibly liquidated by estate sale which is absolutely horrifying and a great way to diminish the value of everything you have. Don’t put your family members in a position where they have to pay what the appraisal says it’s worth to purchase something you want from your estate.
specifically identify your equipment to individual beneficiaries as best you can and then if they choose to sell it they can do it at their leisure and maybe they will come to love it just like you did. That way you don’t have beneficiaries, executors and liquidators being at the mercy of appraisers, etc.
Try to anticipate the final accounting process of your estate and make it as simple as possible to avoid incredible stress by those trying to settle your estate and obviously to reduce attorney fees.
