I'm talking 6+ months per home just sitting there.

Sitting down with your relative with a budget and asking for input is good business acumen and shows your maturity in the business world.

Sometimes the chains are not all recorded and they sit in file, although that practice is less and less prevalent today.

It has no garage and no basement, is sitting on an oddly shaped, but very large corner lot.

If the house sits for a while and workers or agents are going in and out, I change them again when a new tenant moves in.

At first I thought this was not necessarily the case but if you sit down and think about it, an investment is something that produces income or value.

Other than your own research, anyone starting with tax certificates/deeds should spend a couple hundred dollars for a sit down with an attorney knowledgable about about tax sales.

Ganesh S.,It

I know we could just sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, but even though this is family I would like some legalities taken up just to be proper about it.

It's so ridiculous they don't talk about how investors are taking houses that have been sitting vacant, improving neighborhoods and values, and working to make areas in Las Vegas (other than the strip) attractive, and believe me there are a lot of bad areas.