My thought is that I could possibly discuss the situation that legally, the estate has an obligation to pay the lease according to the terms but that this doesn't sit right with me and to ask her if she could help me by signing the Release whenever they can complete going through her personal property (with no constraint imposed by me) rather than dragging the process out the full 60 days.

The other thing is, you should make a relationship with your friendly Bank Manager and have a sit down with them about the requirements for a Mortgage on your First Home.

Don't recall they talking about the hardships of the poor.

If the money is just sitting in your bank account earning less than 1% for the next three years, then go ahead and pay it off.

If you’re have a rate anywhere under 4%, I would sit on it and just slowly add more to the principal, or put aside a fund to pay it off when you can.

If I recall properly they are both 10 year terms with 15 or 20 year payoffs.  

@Eric Williams Sit down, right now, and write out all the facts of this interaction. 

My business partner and I, are sitting on $20,000 cash.

Any way I am thinking about the alarm and having someone sit at the house through the nights.

@Ryan Murdock, There are alternative lenders like myself who lend at lower rates than hard money. to put it simply, we sit between the rates of banks and hard money.