Not 100% certain from a mortgage perspective, but if the trust deeds to property to you, the question would be whether it can be quit-claimed or grant deeded to you. 

Current owner claims it needs a window, the deck could use repair, roof will be soon (it is 13 years old) and the fence needs repaired.   

Dear BP family,I was wondering, do you make your contract sign any forms, attesting that he is satisfied and agree with the final payment, when you transfer him the final payment, to make sure he won't have any claims against you and won't put a lien against your property.Thank you all in advance,Eli M

They may not take very good care of us medically sometimes but they certainly make it easy for us to be in debt! 

For example, many people, even here on BP, will claim every deduction under the sun (e.g. they installed new windows on their primary home) which "might be possible" for your tax return. 

The potential down side is if the money sits unused, you are stuck paying the interest and cannot claim the deduction. 

For instance, they would need to claim the interest that we paid them as income, but they would not be able to claim the interest that they had to turn around and pay to the HELOC because the money was not being used for home repairs.

Besides going to your title company, you can take them to small claims court.  

I’ve also heard that if a tenant claims having a covid related issue that it could prevent/delay an eviction further. 

I would say that you're clear on the timeline of 60 days per the lease as you noted, but would maybe want to consider limiting access to the executor alone, consider going with them maybe and just kindly explain to them that you would prefer only they come in to claim possessions.