Some form of contract or option agreement that I was looking for specifics on that would pass muster with audit or legal around the property being a temporary asset. 

There are also special assessments I would check the property out on the county auditor site to see what the taxes are consisting of, this will give you an idea of the taxes.

On the one I closed on, the title company eventually did it the way I request and then when we checked the Franklin County auditors site the name there is simply the trustee's name. 

Though I'm not an attorney, and this is my non-legal opinion, I'd take the position that this could be a very bad deal for you if you were to back date and then someone find out.An IRS auditor may wonder why, if the sale occurred 1/1, it took you 60+ days to receive funds from the buyer.

It has been my experience with IRS auditors that if you do more than 2 flips per year, they consider you a dealer.

From their I would go to the county auditor's website, get the name and mailing address of the owner and start with the handwriting yellow letters.

Probate and code enforcement can be found in county auditors office/ code violation department.

In my "full time job" I am a Commercial Energy auditor.

Include a check for the exact amount, payable to the xXxX county auditor (here).

So the IRS can bump taxes collected by challenging REP status, which that other thread mentions is pretty easy for an auditor and a lot of work for an investor to have over whelming documentation that doesn't look "fabricated" on the spot after the fact.The point of this thread:   Last month a CPA gave a talk to our REIA and mentioned that claiming REP also increases your IRS scrutiny of whether you 1099 your contractors faithfully.