Why doesn’t BiggerPockets have a probate forum?

[Mike Schorah]

Is it because probates are hurtful? Foreclosures are embarrassing. There’s a forum for that. There’s a forum for taxes. I’m guessing that hurt crosses the line.

Is it because it sucks? There’s a stigma and it’s not a fun subject?

It’s morbid?

Probates are the perfect scenario for off market investing. Most of the houses are rundown, if not outdated. The reality is: if you don’t do it, somebody else is going to do it for you. When people get older or are sick, they’re going to concentrate on the quality of life. They don’t care about the house. Maybe grandma is in the house for 30-40 years and didn’t fix the roof because it wasn’t in the budget. It’s very overwhelming to the person in charge of selling the house.

[Scott Trench]

I think that the forums, in a general, broader, sense exist to pose questions like those about dealing with Probate issues.

We just don't get a high enough volume of posts on dealing with probate specific issues to justify a specific forum category. Should we also create a forum category for divorce? Foreclosure? 

If we see an uptick in questions about probate, we could always create a new forum category.

But for now, I worry that discussion inside of a probate specific forum category would be mostly ... dead. 

See what I did there?