You can set up with an escrow company (recommended) to take the rent and then pay the mortgage to make sure it's paid.If you use an escrow company, I've seen LOs last for years after the seller's death because payments are being made.

It even took a toll on me and rest of my family, knowing our brother who' worked his a** off to get where he is could soon be bankrupt, due to this nutjob and her mold money grab BS!!

Not sure that qualifies as a brush with death.  

I bring my yellow lab with me as security and most of the people in the inner city think she is some kind of bear/dog hybrid and are deathly afraid of her. 

In CA, my state, the threshold is $150,000 date of death value of all assets, regardless of equity.I would not want to begin to speculate what Lousiana's Napoleonic laws are.

Your brother will maintain your cost basis in the gifted shares, and you will have to file a gift tax return which will reduce your tax free estate upon death. 2.

Sometimes, they're not even bad decisions at all, but become untenable situations due to divorce, death or disability.The rent is a current operating expense.

If we only worked with investors, most of us would starve to death.

Check obits and death index, perhaps Ancestry.com for relatives to contact.

Death, incapacitation, and spouses are others.And, yes, you will disagree on the smallest issues.