Inheritance Problems
Hello there, i have an old house which my step father left as properties which is already paid off financing without any proper inheiry stated.Well was known tat my step brother's & step sister's names was on it though & the title of deeds wasnt done up. Somehow, the house was burnt down sometime way back & nobody is staying there now & nobody wants to be bothered about the property tax & i am only one of the inheritance whom cares about the house,eh.. so is there any ways for me to pay off the property tax n just gets the inheritance to myself & sells it??? :-? Well, please advise on tis matter,ok..
Well, If taxes aren't paid then eventually the property will eventually go into default and back to the county (if it's been a while that process might have already started). One way would be to go to the county and find out when they would end up doing that, pay the taxes and take it that way. I've never done it so I'm not sure the process but your courthouse/county tax office should.
Assuming it's hasn't been taken, the easier way would be to find out for sure who's on the title and have them quick deed it over to you. That puts the property in your name for sale and if they really don't care about it that should be easy enough to get them to agree to. If they decide it has some value to them (funny how suddenly they won't want to give away the property they don't care about) then you could always tell them to quick deed it, that you'll build, fix, sell or whatever to it (ie, do the legwork they don't want to bother with) and split the profits with them.