You'll be well served by getting up in the clouds and figuring out "why" before you figure out what.In general I would caution again buying anything in a cyclical market, as opposed to a linear market. 

@Jeremy Kleier yeah i seen they have a section for tenants to see other units in the area... i thought that was real odd and strange... like yeah thanks tenant cloud for helping my competition out

Be patient and don't let your emotions cloud your judgement.

Don't let over-optimism cloud your judgement and leave you with empty units; be sure your potential rent figures are reasonable and attainable.

It would not be sustainable if I did not live right down the road from my tenants, if I drove a Porsche Cayenne up to their place, if I lived in a swanky house instead of half of a beat-up hundred-year-old duplex, if it wasn't almost always me showing up on handyman maintenance calls, if someone else called them other than your truly, or if I had more than 20-25 tenants in this class.Does it hurt my pride to chase rent?

That’s the question a lot of Americans appear to be asking themselves (see storm clouds forming below).

If it were me, I would get the parents to deed over the place and not mention anything to the cousin until it's all closed so they don't try to file a lis pendens or cloud the title.

DocuSign, inspection software, PM software, email software, cloud storage, and more.

However, without probate, you would not have a clear title, you would have extra difficulty getting a loan on the property and should you would need to sell the duplex, you would likely do so at a significant discount to market value -because of the clouded title.   

We currently use Tenant Cloud for our park and it does most of what we need it to do regarding invoicing, rent collection automation (online via bank transfer (Dwolla), credit card (stripe), or Paypal), online leases, background checks, and maintenance requests.