We were in contact with her all the way up until an hour before we were supposed to meet her for a final walk through but when the appointment time came she never showed and cut off all communication and on top of that left the house completely trashed and with a bunch of belongings still in it.

From your comments, you need to make a appointment with a attorney that specializes with Wills and probate and figure out whom is responsible for the estate and how things need to proceed.

@Matthew @Matthew HamiltonundefinedAs Tim mentioned, you need to stay in LE, doesn't matter where or what so long as it's still in LE.Yes, getting your license is the best way to start out and yes, it can be part time.A friend of mine is retired  HPO and was a RE Broker, shift work is really tough trying to make appoints around but it can be done.

An estate would be opened up for the deceased and a Personal Representative would be appointed to carry out the sale.

so they are excited I booked the sat. appointment.. and then they said what bus line do we take to get there..

One may lose points for now showing up to an appointment or otherwise indicating that they could be a PIA tenant.  

@Sean Bell call and make an appointment with a local civil engineer.. they will know most of this stuff off the top of their head.. then you have land planning companies..once you get an idea you contact local planning for a pre app.. then go from there.but don't waste the civil's time is you don't have the means to develop.. 

If you take every showing appointment it results in a lot of wasted time. 

<--I write all this down so if they do fill out the app I can see if it is the same.4)I prefer to have a tight schedule based on appointments, 20 min windows.

I found a roofer and we set up an appointment.