Owner finance property - owner dies and title was never transferred

[Linda Garcia]

I purchased property and a mobile home from my step-father with owner financing. The following month he passed away. The mobile home was originally purchased by my father and brother for my step father and mother after their home burned down. My father wanted to stay out of the picture so my brother arranged to have the home delivered with the title in his name. It's been approximately 10 years since and the title was never transferred so my brother claims that he owns the home and is trying to benefit from my fathers good will. Does anyone know how to legally get this remedied? I expect I have to file something in court but I'm not sure where to begin. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Keith Barton]

How much do you have invested in this? This will be a nightmare to sort out, and not sure which way it would go without more info and research (which I don't have time to do....) Anyway, generally speaking - the title is a public record proof of who owns the property. There are ways to defeat that, but not sure it would work in this situation. Your remedy would be to sue your brother (to argue he should not be legal owner), or sue your step-father's estate (to argue he didn't have right to sell to you and he owes you the money - but then you didn't get title so you should've known better - and then where does this leave your mother....) - no-win situation if you ask me....