All Forum Posts by: Stephanie Dupuis

Seems like you are on the right track - go volunteer. Attend meet ups.

Also, start saving your cash. If you can't save your cash and learn to manage your cash well, you're only "wishing" to be a REI. This may mean taking action to increase your income and lower your expenses. This may take some time, which is ok. It will be time well spent. It took me years to start b/c of this issue, but it strengthens your resolve.

btw, sellers typically won't finance you if you don't make much and don't have savings. Go fix this. This is something you can do.

@Vlad Kuzin. ok. Here's a current list of deceased from the WA State SS site:

http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Search#10

WA State Digital Archives

You know as much as I do - I'm learning this along with you. I figured out to simply enter the years you want to search (no name), and the county. Then press the search button. You get tons of names. But, when you cross reference them on the King County site, they aren't there. This is because they may have died in King County, but owned property in a nearby county. Most of the hospitals are in King - everyone from around town ends up at those hospitals. But they own property elsewhere. So, I'd do property searches at the neighboring county sites.

Here is another doc that has more resources on it put out by the State of WA:

How Can I Find Washington State Deaths?

Clearly not all docs are showing up in their system, Vlad. I have a King County "Letters of Testamentary" in my hand right now and I cannot find it. Not even with the doc #.

I won't see my estate atty. for several weeks, but when I do I'll ask the para how she looks this up online in King County.

Looking at the site, you're going to need to do a bunch of legwork - which is typical (unless someone else can pipe in here)...

Search for anything probate related in the Free Form search area. Also, I noticed when I searched for "Letters" only, the search pulled up a ton of "Letters Testamentary". If I searched "Letters Testamentary", the search only pulls of 15 results. So, you need to experiment with the search functions, which is true of all county search engines. You need to experiment, then filter through the results, one by one. At least you're not at the county courthouse looking through the files. King County has a poor search query.

Also, look for docs titled:

Letters of Admin

Letters of Administration

Letters of Personal Representative

Anything that says:

Personal Rep

Personal Representative

Executor

Executrix

Administrator

Letters Test (Letters Testamentary gets abbreviated)

I see many files in there that didn't pull up b/c they have a doc# in from of the title name 002912984Letters of the Testamentary. This will not appear in the search. So...Simply search "letters" and start scrolling through the pages.

See if you can filter by date or something.

You need to click:

1. Official Public Records

Then - there are two areas in this page you will do your search.

1.In the "Document Type" field, you can search for Death Certificates. Then you've got to be a detective after that, find the properties, etc. using the person's name.

2. The other search is done below in the Free Form box. Search for "Letters Testamentary". This will give you the names of personal representatives for the estate - and who the deceased is and where they resided. Again, then you need to be a detective and find your missing info from there.

Both forms provide a ton of information.

This took me 20 secs to pull up via google.

http://www.kingcounty.gov/business/Recorders/RecordsSearch.aspx

Yes it is. County records are online for King County, I don't know about Pierce but sure that they are.

I do not recall the King County access address, but I remember finding it by googling King county property search. Once I accessed their search, you can search for all records.

Hopefully someone on here can provide a link for you.

Love the post by @J Scott . Here's a quote from J's post for the next poster on BP that asks, "How do I know if I'm ready?":

"So, what this means in terms of the question above -- I would highly recommend reading and studying intensively until you are *comfortable* with the idea of jumping into a project. At that point, you're probably ready..."

Well done Josh and everyone at BP who participates and supports the BP mission. Congrats!

I'm thinking I'd have the same experience @Aaron Mazzrillo stated. I took a look at the leads in my area on the site last night. I've already had contact with many of them in the past through other means. The leads are over a year old. I know the properties have been sold and resold already (and who bought and sold - smaller community here). This did catch my eye, though.