Taxes unfortunately go with the house/property not typically with the owner.Normally when you are closing transactions at a title company, they will help you clean up any outstanding tax issues.

@Brian Garlington I just reviewed a lease with the clause permitted reasons for eviction “such as non-payment of rent, breach of lease, damaging premises, drug or other illegal activity, disorderly conduct, rehabilitation of unit, landlord or relative occupancy.”In speaking with an agent he too was under the impression a buyer (landlord) could move into the unit they were purchasing, so I’m wondering if there were 4 owners could they all 4 move into a 4-plex and effectively require the tenants (on month to month leases) to move out?

The transaction took a very long time due to seller not finding a replacement home and now I'm unable to relocate for at least 12months.

Willing to pay for legal help.Thank youAttorney lawyer South Carolina fiduciary council transaction court 

Look up her name at the Recorder's office to see if you can find any more information or deeds filed with her on it.You could also try scanning through the articles of organization for her LLC on the SOS website.You could try truepeoplesearch or thatsthem or other online resources to see if any family members come up and repeat all these processes with them.You could also chat up your other neighbors and see if any of them know how to reach her.If you can identify a previous MLS sale, you could contact the agent and involve them in the transaction to get paid if they're able to connect you two and you end up buying the place.If you're hellbent, there's a lot of stuff you can try!

It will assist tremendously in tracking the transactions (bookkeeping).

They helped me do a cash out refinance into a 30 year loan, on a property that was illegally zoned. 

They are also pushing for banks to increase transaction reporting efforts.

Got my 1st renovation and flip transaction done all y’all’s post and responses to my questions have been extremely helpful I appreciate this forum a lot !!

(Contrary to if you do a 1031 transaction, which is a whole different topic, but requires you to sell).Final thing I would say - think of the refinance as two separate transactions.