@Chris Seveney1: I am buying a note from them.2: Performing note only No referrals yet, I am new to this so still doing my homework to make sure I understand what I am getting into.I do understand there would be some risk so I want to make sure I know what they are and how to get out of it in one piece.

For the last few weeks I have been dead set on investing into my first piece of income property.

Find someone who gets a nice piece of anything they collect. 

Our tax records here in Harrison County aren't quite as good as in some other parts of the country, you've got to piece all the info together from old and usually out of date records.Do you have any properties you're currently looking in to?

We owe $349kHer house value according to Zillow (since we haven't had appraisals done yet): $754k needs major work (we are ok with the work, it comes with the land we want as well and that has huge value to us) She owes around 60k (I think)My question is more about how to go about the legal piece of this.What are some options to make sure both parties are covered legally?

Never get into breaking up rent or deposits into separate pieces for the tenants.

What i didn't piece together at the time and is obvious now.... there was a tree in the front yard.

@Patrick PhilipThe beauty of much of this business for the investor is that while an investor sees a piece of land with a structure on it in terms of fungible value, a retail buyer sees a home and hearth, a place to raise their children, somewhere to grow old together with their loving spouse, a symbol of their financial competency, a mark of belonging to one class rather than another.

The owner wouldn’t be able to stop the heirs, or anyone in the world as you said, from executing a qcd.I would love to see what paperwork the investor has that convinced them these heirs were actually heirs to that specific property and get their story of why not record the deeds and why not get the same from the owner or buy the house from the owner.Or the heirs and the “investor” were all working together going after the property, there’s just not enough info to piece it together.

Are the tenants behind on their payments. or current would be important piece of the puzzle.