I grew up a large portion of my child hood right outside Jackson, MS.

If your goal is to actually move wedding product to actual brides, you talk about very different things, don't you? 

They're mourning a loved one, are revisiting a lifetime of emotional baggage on top of planning a funeral, possibly dealing with probate, cleaning out a household of memories and possibly their childhood rooms...

I tend to over analyze things myself which actually got me into a good habit of doing basic research on a property before I contact the owner.If a property is truly "abandoned" ( be careful with that word because some folks who haven't necessarily abandoned a property will take offense to you suggesting that they abandoned their childhood home.

My dad (61 y.o.) currently lives in our childhood home and has been struggling to find a job.

This could be bad to evict people from a childhood home. 

He is a childhood friend and is willing to give me great terms until final product is done - also should we do the payments thru a tittle company?

Home day cares are better than centers & positive childhoods shape the future.

It was a fixer - upper In a TERRIBLE neighborhood, but I figured of course, "buy the house, get In good with the future mother in law, save the future wife's childhood home, and be a "hero".

The emotionally-dependent wife that can't help enabling him, but has to leave him when he becomes a danger to his children.The childhood accident that leaves a very young girl permanently scarred and she chooses a completely marginalized husband because it's precisely his marginalization that allows him to understand her own.