Also, due to my mother's mental health, I have PoA over all her affairs including her home where she owes 45k with an interest rate of 6.9.

If you don't have your affairs in line being in contract is a fruitless effort.

Someone would be successor to him and his affairs in the event his wife passed away.  

I would learn, play, and work EACH day to maintain the passionate love affair with real estate.I would ask more questions of others, their processes, their jobs, their investment methodology and get more connective learning and understanding of the big picture...  

If buying an REO from a bank guarantees a clear title, then I guess they've resolved some of the issues from 2010, where  Title problems – banks won’t warrant title to their own, foreclosed properties.Unfortunately, according to Consumer Affairs -- Foreclosure Lawsuits (against banks) are still  ongoing. 

Registration of Foreign Associations – General Rule and ExclusionsGeneral Rule – A foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership may not do business in this Commonwealth until it registers with the Department of State.Exclusions – Activities of a foreign filing association or foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute doing business in this Commonwealth include the following: (1) Maintaining, defending, mediating, arbitrating or settling an action or proceeding. (2) Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its interest holders or governors. (3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions. (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange and registration of securities of the association or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to the securities. (5) Selling through independent contractors. (6) Soliciting or obtaining orders by any means if the orders require acceptance outside of this Commonwealth before the orders become contracts. (7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages or security interests in property. (8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting or maintaining property so acquired. (9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is not in the course of similar transactions. (10) Owning, without more, property. (11) Doing business in interstate or foreign commerce.Being an interest holder or governor of a foreign association that does business in this Commonwealth does not by itself constitute doing business in this Commonwealth.In general terms, any conduct more regular, systematic, or extensive than that described above constitutes doing business and requires the foreign association to register to do business.

People who take pride in their work, are professional in their manner and manage their affairs well.  

It sounds like a family affair that went bad and the aunt doesn't want to talk about it b/c she feels uncomfortable with the situation in the first place.

It also makes your secretary happier when managing your affairs if you get to that point.

Has anyone wholesaled a home that was owned by the Department of Veteran Affairs?