Search the county probate court recordsMost probate filings are public.In many counties (including Alabama), you can search online for:the deceased owner’s nameestate filingsopen probate casesIf it’s in probate, you’ll usually see an estate case with a personal representative listed.2.

Also ask tenants if there are any recurring issues.Typically when completing the due diligence, you'll have a chance to see the current Sch E, which will list utilities if the owner is paying anything. 

If you sell those, gains would generally be taxable, and depreciation recapture may also apply if any are held as rentals.I’d happy to walk you through how to structure it most efficiently when you're ready.Feel free to e-mail me or reach out anytime.

Quote from @Ryan Montbleau: @Drew Sygit thank you for this advice -- I really appreciate the graphic you included about FICO score and default probability.

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He also reminded me that I am able to email for support and have two phone calls for support included. 

We capture them through the squeeze page that is built into the software by advertising on Craigslist, or sending direct mail to service type companies like lawn maintenance, pest control, mobile computer repair, etc.

Typically I see a statement included to the effect (paraphrasing here): "any owner can provide 30 day notice of proposed repair/maintenance/improvement and then any other owner can respond.

Here it is in all it's glorious perspicuity:(3) The individual participates in the activity for more than 100 hours during the taxable year, and such individual's participation for the taxable year is not less than the participation in the activity of any other individual (including individuals who are not owners of interests in the activity) for such year;The regulation doesn't just require 100 hours of participation.It requires you to work at least as much as any other individual working on the property—including your property manager,.What does this mean in practice?

This would be 2 days before he announced in his June 20th email (which I believe you have) that he was suspending payments to hundreds of investors because of financial problems.He did not disclose anywhere in the webinar (48 hours before the email) the difficulties that his business was experiencing which was laid out in the email 2 days later.