When a tenancy ends due to the death of a tenant you need to make sure you do what is required by the laws of your jurisdiction and act in a respectful and sensitive manner.Typical steps:Secure the premises.Notify the authorities.

Then you receive a C of O (Certificate of Acceptance) decided upon again by the local or state or county authorities.

Here it's on the Cuyahoga County Authors site.My purchase price is always lower than the Counties value.

There are many loan types available, CHFA, NACA, Alabama Housing Finance Authority, Habitat, USDA, etc.

  #2)  Get Authorization.   

We also have a maintenance agreement that gives us authority to take care of repairs that are less than $250.

Because the Landlord doesn't have the authority to force tenants to purchase a product that is solely for the tenant's benefit.Again, the amount of time required to inform the tenant, verify compliance, and then track just doesn't seem worth it.

I get this letter saying really a bunch of nothing, asserting that I willfully with held the security so now I owe them double security and if I don't pay them by X date they are authorized to file suit in Vermont SUPERIOR court.So, can they actually take this to the superior court as even if they were to tack on lawyers fees I can't imagine it would make it past 5k?

If this is "really" a Lease (as opposed to a License), and if you are going to record anything (like a Memorandum of Lease) then the Owner either MUST sign the Lease and MOL -- OR the owner must record some delegation of authority documents showing that the person signing on owner's behalf has the authority to do so.

Gary Keller is author of the Millionaire RE Agent which outlines systems they teach.