Finding property heirs

[Michael Previtera]

How would I find the heirs to a property?

I once worked for a woman who’s parents left the house solely to her 40 years ago before they died. The woman died almost 5 years ago and nothing has happened to the property ever since she passed. I have already checked on liens, 4 years of back taxes and one bill from the city for mowing the grass one time shortly after she died but nothing else. I far as I know she had no one else, never married no kids. There has to be someone out there but what if there’s not.

The property is located in Tennessee. I don’t want to wait until the next tax sale for 2 reasons. One, it might take years before the next sale. Two, I don’t trust the local attorneys that run the sale for the county. The wife of the attorney cherry-picks the properties she wants to buy days before the auction. So the properties will be announced in the newspaper but on the day of the sale the properties never come up. When I check the property records several months later she owns the missing properties.