For Tiburon and Belvedere homes

Own the Smart Home Your Tiburon or Belvedere Dealer Rents You

You paid a dealer to make your Tiburon house smart, and they did. The lighting is elegant, the shades move on cue, the theater just works. Then you tried to change a single scene, or add a light out on the dock, and you learned the real terms of the deal: you own the house, but someone else owns the system inside it. Every change is a phone call, a rate, and a wait. This page is for the Tiburon or Belvedere owner who is tired of being a guest in their own smart home.

First, in fairness. A good dealer builds beautiful systems, and if you genuinely want one company to own every problem forever, that model is worth paying for. None of it is a scam. But it is a specific arrangement, and if you are reading this, you have probably already felt its edges. We wrote the long, honest version of the math in what dealer lock-in actually costs. This page is about what to do once you have decided you would rather own the thing.

What a Tiburon or Belvedere house is actually running

The homes out here are not simple. A typical property on the Tiburon peninsula or Belvedere island is a large house, often with a guest house or an ADU, either on a hillside with a bay view or right on the water in the Belvedere Lagoon or Paradise Cay. That means a lot of systems, and most of them arrived with their own app: lighting and shades across a dozen zones, a gate at the top of a long private drive, cameras, HVAC by wing, a pool and spa, a wine room that has to hold temperature, solar and a battery, and a water system where a slow leak on a stone floor is an expensive afternoon.

On the water, add the dock. Dock and pathway lighting, a shore-power pedestal, sometimes a boat lift, and cameras watching the slip. Right now that is likely eight apps and no single screen, and half of them only one person in the house knows how to open. The console is the single screen. One interface that shows all of it and controls all of it, on hardware you own.

The details a general installer skips

Water is the theme out here, and it cuts two ways. On the bay side, the dock is part of the house: you want the shore-power draw, the dock lights, and the slip cameras on the same screen as the living room, and when a king tide or a winter storm pushes water where it should not be, a cheap sensor that pings your phone is worth more than any luxury feature. Inside, on stone and hardwood, the same logic applies to the plumbing, which is why the water meter and leak detection belong on the main screen, not buried three taps deep in a separate app. This is the part of a waterfront home the standard smart-home pitch never mentions, and it is exactly the part that ruins a floor if you miss it.

You do not have to rip anything out

Here is the good news for someone who already spent real money on a dealer install: an owned console usually goes on top of what you have, not in place of it. Your Lutron lighting, your cameras, your pool controller, your solar and battery, the gate, the good hardware stays. What changes is who holds the screen and who is allowed to make changes. We connect those systems into one interface you control, and from that day the dock-light schedule, the guest-wing scene, and the away mode that arms the cameras and drops the shades are yours to change, with no service call and no wait.

I will also be straight about the limits, because you have heard enough promises. Some proprietary AV programming stays tied to the platform it was built on, and where a system is genuinely locked, I will tell you that to your face instead of promising to free something I cannot. Most of a Tiburon house, though, comes over cleanly, and you end up owning the parts that matter day to day.

Owned versus dealer, in plain rows

If I ever disappear, your house is fine

You already know what it feels like when the company holding your system stops picking up. So here is exactly what you get, in writing, the day the console is yours. It runs on hardware inside your house that you own, not on a server I control. You hold every account and every login. You get full documentation and the configuration, so any competent installer, not only me, can pick it up and keep going. Nothing about your house is trapped behind one person. That is the entire point of building it owned. If I vanished tomorrow, your lights, your dock, your pool, and your gate keep working, and someone else could take the keys, because you were always the one holding them.

Who you would actually be working with

My name is Max Goshay. I build these consoles myself, out of San Rafael, about ten minutes from the Tiburon peninsula. My own Marin home is the first build: the Sol-Ark solar and battery, the Flume water meter, and the house's 20-year-old Lutron lighting are on the console live today, the Lutron rescued after every dealer had written it off, and the Jandy pool controller joins when its receiver hardware goes in. That is the same work I would do for you. You can click around a real one right now, no login, on the live demo. I am one person and the company is new, and I would rather tell you that plainly than pretend to be a national firm with a call center. A real person, me, replies within a day.

The honest money

The console itself is a flat build, from $2,500, and you get that number in writing before any work starts. Taking over a large waterfront estate with a dock, a gate, a guest house, and an existing dealer system is more involved than a single-screen setup, so that bespoke work is billed as engineering at $95 to $150 an hour, and you approve the scope and the estimate before I begin anything. There is an optional care plan at $99 a month if you want a person quietly watching the house, and you can cancel it anytime, because the console keeps running either way. If the quote or the plan is not right for you, you owe nothing. There is no pay-now button on this page on purpose. The first step is a free walkthrough, in person or on a call, where you show me what you already have and I tell you honestly what is worth keeping. You can see all of the prices on the pricing page whenever you want them.

Everything you run. One screen. If you have a beautiful system you are not allowed to touch, that is the problem worth fixing first.

Control4, Savant, Crestron, and Lutron are sold and programmed through certified dealers on a quote-only basis; this page describes how those systems are commonly sold, not any one company. What a console can take over from an existing install depends on the system, and I confirm exactly that with you before any work begins. Our prices are published at headlandsconsole.com/start. Published July 2026.