Thanks in advance for any help.It's very unlikely you can get a personal loan on the property using a quit claim deed based on a deceased owner.

Anybody north of the border with some experience in this asset class?

It took two weeks for them to figure out the deceased's workload and delegate it to other offices.

It's available at any Barnes and Noble, Borders, and I am sure Amazon.

Any locals here who can provide some insight on the area around Cumberland, IN on the border of Indy?  

If you find that you're running into issues where there are a lot of deceased homeowners or tax deeded properties, I highly suggest doing this.

Good areas border fringe areas which border terrible areas, etc. 

I just went through this,  My thoughts process was:  The prior owners were deceased there was a $149,000 mortgage owed citizens bank, and a small loan from Hud for $15,000 and a $8000 SBA loan. 

You may have a contract with a deceased person but her estate and it’s financial responsibilities will dictate wheather or not they can afford to honor that contract or must sell at a higher price.

BUT since i believe that today is the 1st day of the rest of my life it is not...hardest things was finding people to trust there are a lot of sharks  out there in them there waters... and since  I live in Canada getting the whole cross border things sorted.Early errors cost big  but the mistakes  helped me get to where  I am today  even thought they had a huge price tag (40 000  Canadian ) I consider it a small cost to learn what i needed to know to invest for the next 40 years.