BP’s podcasts, members, forums, community, and it’s book it published @J Scott “The Book on Flipping Houses” have been instrumental for us with the building blocks of our flips.We mainly started looking and making offers on properties from the MLS, but had no success, we actually were not even close to agreeing on a price in any of the MLS deals we put offers on. 

What's really cool is your not fighting the yoke trying to hunt for instruments as you have a clear field of vision.

This is always music to an investor's ears.

Now, a recorded contract (or the instrument you suggest) hopefully would keep someone from trying to pull a fast one like the person this person did.

To be a composer or the conductor you need to understand music theory, you don't need theory to play the horn.

(5) To make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver all deeds, releases, mortgages, leases, contracts, agreements, instruments, and other obligations of whatsoever nature relating to the Trust Property, and generally to have full power to do all things and perform all acts necessary to make the instruments proper and legal

Sitar music would be playing in the background and the yogi would often drive a Rolls Royce, one of a fleet in their possession.

Ideally, get someone from the title company to come talk about notes and deeds of trust ( security instruments) and balloons.

If you have a FCL in progress I think that would help to mitigate the piano music. 

The Mortgagee being dead (if they really mean deceased or out of business) doesn't affect the legality or enforcement of the Security Instrument (Mortgage/DOT) and Note.A "Note Judgement" which is not a technical term, seems to mean the borrower can only suffer from a Deficiency if one is pursued.