In other words, ensure that this individual truly owns the property and that no other siblings have rights to it.

Helped my siblings look for, evaluate and fix rental properties in the early 2000s.

I have 2 children and 4 young foster children (all siblings) that we are hoping to one day adopt, and possibly another foster child (also a sibling to the 4 that we have) which we believe is due sometime in Dec.I've owned my own business in arboriculture / horticulture for the past 7 years...Thanks again, Ron.

Wow when I grew up, 10 was the legal age on base when we could start babysitting younger siblings and 12 for other people. 

The other two siblings have no interest in the house and are willing to sell their 'shares' for a very fair price.

Us surviving siblings got together and decided how to divide the estate.My oldest sister was appointed the Personal Representative (PR) for the estate.

Since posting this, I've contacted two of the four siblings and I've discovered that:1. the house has a reverse mortgage on it (the $98,500)2. one of the siblings lives right next door and knew about the reverse mortgage3. the other 3 siblings were unaware of the reverse mortgage, and therefore do not want to move forward with opening succession because they are uncertain about what debt responsibilities they might incur.I've done some research online regarding "successions" here in Louisiana (referred to as "probate" everywhere else, from what I understand) and from what I can tell, they shouldn't have much to worry about unless they were co-signers with the deceased on debt related obligations. 

My father and his siblings have a piece that they've split up amongst themselves.

There are three of his siblings that are sorry they didn't take my advice to play nice and split it 4 ways and part in peace.

Not sure if this is the same in all states or just Kansas, but like others on this site have mentioned deals are tough to come by these days so I took a chance.Well come to find out today from a different neighbor I hadn't talked to before, that the owners siblings were living in the house a year earlier (and drug addicts), but hadn't been there for a year until today when apparently they had three trucks there packing some stuff up.