Owner is deceased

[Joe Henderson]

I've gotten tons of help from people on my other discussion regarding the encumbrance report but now there is a different twist. The owner of the property is deceased. I was looking around the obviously vacant house and started talking with a couple of neighbors, one of them said he thought the owner had died earlier this year but he did live by himself and was a loner. Hmmm. I googled the name and sure enough found an obit on the guy. Died 6 months ago in the hospital. What effect would this have, if any, on the foreclosure (or I guess more importantly- after foreclosure)?