(To avoid months of probate and thousands if not $10’s of thousands of dollars in costs.)Hawaii is considered a "TOD deed state," meaning that residents can utilize Transfer on Death (TOD) deeds to designate beneficiaries who will inherit their property upon their death, allowing for a potential bypass of probate court proceedings.If she is already in memory care center.

Quote from @Elisabeth Lernhardt: Today I found out, that some of the utilities were not in the tenants name!

We can only do the best we can trying to beat the fraudsters by leveraging tools.Regarding fake SSN the screening services picks up on mismatches.

Any sober living investors out there willing to let me pick their brain on how to underwrite a potential deal?

Pick one, but pull the trigger.

ALTA survey, utility survey, etc.$100k per building, I'd say not usually. 

And they need to be tailored to what you can pick up about the recipient regarding their culture and all.

After we gave him additional time to come up with the money (a mistake I know), he said he COULD pay, but that it would only be in cash (not in the lease) and we would have to come pick it up.  

I purchased a home 2.5 years ago utilizing the New York First Homebuyers Club which gives you approximately 8k in grants if you meet certain criteria, which I did.

Since I was only filing on major things like underground utilities, fires, etc.