Should I physically go to the court house to view public records?

I mean taking into account all the physical labor of construction, the searching, finding people to work with, etc. 

I'll bet that the Federal Government has probably spent millions of dollars in research and determined that people will continue to die owning real estate and leaving money messes for their heirs to clean up.

But for those of you who say you meet people at the property to physically show them...what about when you have say five units open at once.  

Some buildings showed 80-90% occupancy but the economic occupancy was much lower (collections were short or behind) even despite the physical occupancy being higher.What area are you referring to?

http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/08/24/real-estate-agents-working-with-investors/I just sent her an email inviting her to lunch, and you can bet I'll be encouraging her to sign up with BP AND providing her this link.  

I bet if you find the right partner this can be very lucrative mutually! 

It sounds like the physical layout is such that it could be two separate units.

I think my best bet is to just send it to collections as you suggested.

I'll bet she doesn't have the money to send the security deposits to you.