It was transferred to an estate for his next of kin prior to the landlord passing.  

E.

The reason you can't deduct travel expense before identifying property is you report your every rental activity that you already own on schedule E.

If they don’t we can’t keep buying their crappy goods via Wal-Mart and Amazon, which they need to transfer the wealth our country inherited to their respective countries. 

I cannot transfer this to new buyer.3> Insurance will not pay me full amount until the work is done.Now my concern is, I am getting paid 8k (after deductible) while total expense is 15k.

My question is, where can I find information about how make sure all of the steps are followed to ensure that we have the proper transfer of title? 

We never came close to that, so the insta-transfers to our acct costed us just the $50 per year.

Get copies of the leases, make sure the owner transfers security deposit with the sale and contact the tenant right after closing giving them notice of non renewal.

You don't need to play the transfer game, every normal checking deposit is swept directly towards your remaining balance automatically. 2.75% is a great rate for a Heloc, I wonder if that might be a "teaser rate".

That is to say I can draw on them for 10 years and after that the remaining balance transfers to a fixed term loan for the balance of time without the ability to draw more principal.