The hotels I'm talking about are VOLUNTARILY giving this information to the authorities in the interest of protecting their property, employees, and other guests.

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foreclosures are initiated through your local courthouse, and tax liens are typically listed by the taxing authority (county)

Hey All,Want to thank you for viewing and even more for potentially answering/solving.Family friends have a large down payment for a home but are not US Citizens or Green Card holders (They do have employment authorization and Social Security).

The Executor can file a request to the court, to get authorization to sell the property, but that may not speed things up.

In Michigan we have supervised and unsupervised estates (the unsupervised estates are also called simple estates and are of lesser value in the estate) when the courts issue letters of authority to the personal representative / Executor of the estate it will state whether or not the sale of real estate needs approval of the court.

Then get the parcel either rezoned to put it into a residential status where a single family residential property is allowed or leave the zoning alone and get the property designated "legal non-conforming" with a 100% rebuild letter from the taxing authority like the county or city. 

According to the author, you look for a number less than 12.4.

I've had a judge reschedule and added in 10 more days, because she wanted the person to fill out the Authorization to Represent to be the person to be in court attendance (rather then the new property manager handling the file on behalf of the management company).The safest way, would be to evict on a 10 days notice posted for unpaid rent after your possession, and post their door on the closing day - and represent yourself as the new owner.

Having made connections with the base housing authorities at several installations nationwide and accompanied with a strategy that was new to me at the time of reading BiggerPockets very own "INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE WITH NO MONEY DOWN".