A Quit-claim deed only transfers "whatever interest" the seller may have in the property; I could, technically, quit-claim the Fulton County Court house to you because the quit-claim deed does not imply that I have title, only that any interest I have or don't have, I'm transferring to you. 

Everyone in the family needs to be on the same page and agree to proceed with a legal eviction.

We have many questions about how to proceed, but wanted to start with this one:We are about to lose our current health insurance and are looking for a new plan.

I see tons of homes going into foreclosure at my local court house that are worth way less than what the owner owe.

All four of the leases will end shortly before we're able to close and the seller is asking how I would like him to proceed.  

We figure that renting will get us parking, potentially more houses we'd be interested in buying in a year (or 2), and then we'd have some more flexibility with the timing of selling our house and using the proceeds as the downpayment for the next house.

Its a double edge sword  we all like to talk about how great our markets are but then are bummed out when deals start to get tight and or harder to get because of competition.It does remind me of my days buying homes at the court house steps.. at every auction you will have a big group of folks with about 4 to 6 REAL bidders..

the big issues there........ the government is corrupt as hell. especially in the muskegon heights area. my brother has had no end of trouble with these people. also, other areas of muskegon, such as the city, they hire out their inspections process to a place called safebuilt. these people are worse than the government over there. my brother sells a lot of his houses on land contract. these people simply refuse to accept this as a sale and call his houses rentals. they claim this gives them the right to issue him tickets for repairs needed because he is the " current owner of record". they use a portion of the government system that is outdated and has inaccurate records to claim he is the owner. consequently, he winds up in court all the time with new " violations" on these " rental houses" that he has full proof that he sold years ago. as of yet, he has be able to beat them in court just by proving that he no longer owns them, but he is going to court almost every week with them. i believe they hope he will just give up and pay the fines. that is not gonna happen with him......lol. but, just so you are informed, muskegon may appear to be a good place to invest, but you will have serious hurdles to jump over on a regular basis. 

Either another person comes in and pays the back taxes (lien) and the proceeds are turned over to you in the form of a return of your money plus interest, or the property goes to auction and you will outright be given the property if no one wishes to purchase it. 

I would recommend proceeding with a turnkey rental out of state as long as you have properly vetted the turnkey seller and the numbers on the house are good.