I got death and legal threats.

If properly drafted, the house would still be part of her taxable estate, and as such, upon death, you would get a step up in basis.I have some advanced trust and estate planning with my clients, as many other professionals do as well.

@Wayne Brooks so pretty much what she told me was, "we met with the lawyer and he told us to get her mom's death certificate so we went to her sister's house and she is already in the process of becoming executor of the estate.

At least you can build equity and later refi out if you want to, but seller financing at 8% is not a death sentence, usual rates before the bust were 10%.

Apps crashing, audio always cutting out, slow performance, blue screens of death, etc.

Death is obviously difficult for any family, as is the following estate proceedings and such.

Thankfully we've never had a known death in any of our units. 

But in your case the death was only 2014, so I don't know how that will work out.  

I did not word my answer very well, but the normal way a trust works is that the beneficiary is the settlor until the settlor's death, then the trust must pass to another person within 21 years of a life in being. 

It is less of a life or death situation if you can purchase a home for 100k compared to dropping your life savings into an expensive property when you are on the first deal, which is essentially a test run.