Mine were all cash so no appraisal was involved.

The advantage to most of these is that they get the cash to you very quickly for free.

Should I involve an attorney ahead of time to check for liens, back taxes, or other encumbrances that might transfer with the property?

The best move depends on whether you want to keep your current home as a rental or cash out and reset clean with the next one.If you want to keep it, a cash-out refinance usually makes the most sense.

That turn is the fixed price for every single time and paid by the guest transferred to the cleaning person 

The extra cash flow that results when you don't have to pay taxes can be used to upgrade the property or purchase additional properties.

It will trigger a tsunami of wealth transfer from other states.

Leaving the cash locked in a not-paid-off property means it can be difficult later to do big renovations and it obviously does impact cash flow. 

It will take some work; you'll need to plan ahead, structure things right, and make sure that it makes sense with your entire financial picture.The best move for families in this situation is to review the tax transcript early and work with a CPA and title professional who can confirm the lien’s status before listing or transferring the property.

Bo, that’s a complex situation — when a trust has no active trustee and the bank steps in as successor, it can really complicate creative-finance structures like subject-to.From what I’ve seen, the biggest hurdle is title and consent: most title companies won’t insure a transfer until the bank legally conveys or forecloses, and the lender typically won’t approve a title transfer that keeps their note in place.Some investors will sometimes use short-term bridge capital (through escrow only) to secure control once title clears — essentially a timing solution rather than a workaround for lender consent.Definitely worth looping in a title company that’s handled estate or trust transfers under distress.