Kudos for taking action that's the first and usually the hardest step to take!

Could not imagine functioning without it.

Congrats on taking the first step in deciding to invest in real estate and in your future!

Hi i'm relatively new to BP and was wondering if someone could provide some guidance as to what steps I should take before investing out of state. 

@Gino Barbaro your very correct free is free but still location for that someone to contact when you step past free info to real world solutions.  

As you can imagine, there is so much information out there, you don't want to replicate the same information into a JIRA system.

When they die their heirs get a step up in basis so the tax disappears for the heirs. 

House is not cluttered and everything was put away, but there are food crumbs all over the floor and the steps are full of debris like they haven't been cleaned since they moved in.

It sounds like you've already taken the proper first steps, which are to learn as much as you can and then to define your investing strategy.Your dollar will certainly go further in the Phoenix metro area than it will in Orange County, and there are numerous 2-4 unit multi-family properties in Phoenix, Mesa, and other suburbs that are within your budget. 

They informed me that a series of steps have to be taken in order to purchase this property which they called “steps for assignment process”.One of those steps was to send a certified letter to the daughter (the Personal Representative of the estate) stating my intentions of buying the property and paying off the taxes.