And yes, $250K cash won't fund a retirement of 30 years.Then I had a tenant whose parents died, and left him and his two siblings the family home.

Both my siblings go to Tech, happy to help 

Hey BP,I have about $90-100k saved up to buy a place of my own (possibly more, I’m closing on selling my father’s building in Sleepy Hollow, but I have to pay back the bank and my other siblings).

A place you went to school, where a sibling lives, a city where you grew up, just anything that lets you understand a market better than you can sitting at a computer.  

You should have enough equity that you could take out a mortgage sufficient to pay the siblings off and you keep the property.

The other siblings owned and borrowed against the house.

Skip trace reports may provide info or clues about offsprings, siblings and common relatives and associates.

Contractor found the deal, was part on an estate, I had to walk the seller through the courthouse proceedings because it was part of an estate with 7 siblings that needed to sign off.

In a situation where there are multiple owners (it doesn't matter if they are heirs, siblings, spouses, or just several unrelated friends or partners who own the property), the only real questions you have to answer (aside from whether it's a good investment) are "Who owns it?"

., who are contacting me 'because [son/sibling/parent etc] is busy' (or sometimes away).