It sounds to me that either the county has not updated the owner's name properly...OR more than likely the property was passed down to his son with the same name as an inheritance.

You could visit San Jose and Palo Alto to see some overpriced real estate.

This post forced me to pull out my phone and see what my top 10 FREE apps are...AppFolio (of course as a property manager, need to keep tabs on the day-to-day in a mobile world)Google (Counting Google as 1 app for Google maps, Google drive, Google sheets, Google gmail, Google calendar)Dropbox (records, documents, reports, backups for Google Drive and AppFolio accounts)Messages (of course, text me)Camera (of course, stills and videos)Podcasts (BP junkie, of course)KakaoTalk (wife, sons, Korean family members in different states - free international calls, private messages)Notes (keep track of job site details, pictures, InstaGram (probably should have made that #11) photo posts from desktops, ALL Apple apps synch through iCloud to computer network to all desktops both at home and in business office location.

@Jay Hinrichs @Son D.

I’m considering purchasing a house for my son that is graduating from high school in couple of months.

She states her son bounces back and forth between fathers and her place.

@Dustin Ruhl  one cannot discount that Palo Alto down through the southern part of Santa Clara county probably has the finest weather year round weather than anywhere in the continental US>Along with what attracts  the younger tech workers.. 

You can either drown, or swim like a son of a ***** for the surface. 

Her son-in-law was the one who signed the lease on my tenant's behalf.

In fact, my son that works with us (he's 24) listened too, and then read your blog.