When an owner dies and the deed never moves, the property gets stuck. I unstick it.

The tax bills keep coming in a dead person's name. The county sends forfeiture notices to an address where nobody is listening. Year after year, the balance grows, and the property drifts closer to a county auction that nobody in the family asked for.

No bank will lend against it, no title company will insure it, and no buyer can close on it, because the record still shows the property in the name of someone who is gone. Often the estate was never opened. Sometimes it was opened and closed, and the real estate was simply never conveyed out.

Everyone assumes somebody else is handling it. The children thought the executor did it. The executor thought the lawyer did it. The lawyer thought the family had agreed on it. Meanwhile the county's clock keeps running.

My name is Vijay Krishna. I work in southeast Michigan, mostly Monroe, Lenawee, and Wayne counties, resolving curative title problems on distressed property before it is lost. I either buy the property and clear the record myself, or I am paid a fee to clear the title so the family or the estate can sell it.