I figure I may as well get my financing pre approved and start making the 20 or 30 offers it's gonna take to find that eventual winner.

If there is money to be made then someone will eventually step up. 

My wife are looking to get into real estate investing to eventually build enough cash flow in 20 years to have the option to retire.

But in order to eventually be able to get it financed I'd have to sublet it.

Lots of landlords will sell their rentals eventually.

Prioritize and narrow-cast on experimenting with the BRRRR method, buy-hold, single family, multi-unit and eventually some commerical properties (to assist new church storefront start-ups, a personal passion of mine as a church planter).  

Keeping pushing on that universe and it will eventually stop pushing back.

Where as your mom is likely paying the taxes, the taxes are going to be eventually a deduction from the other siblings share.Go on line find out who's name the property is in, so you know who's in charge,, Somebody also has to be paying property insurance, utilities, ??

That's a bummer, but keep at it, and it will eventually stick... with the right property.

His goal is that we would eventually own it outright and could to either sell it or rent it out as a vacation rental without having to wait for transfer on death were they to live another 30-40 years.