09/08/2026
I'm starting a little info series about the sides of real estate nobody really talks about.
Not “5 ways to make your kitchen look bigger" More like... life happened, there's a house involved, and now what the hell am I supposed to do?
So let's start with a fun one.
My parents left me their house. Now what?
I've lost both of my parents, so this one comes from a place of actual understanding. Grief unfortunately does not come with a convenient checklist titled “Things to Do While Your Brain Is Barely Functioning.” My go to is make a dark humor joke...
And when you inherit a home, you don't have to immediately know what you're going to do with it.
First, figure out who legally owns the property and whether it needs to go through probate. Find out if there's still a mortgage, unpaid taxes, liens, insurance, or other expenses attached to it. Then you can start looking at your actual options.
You can keep it.
You can rent it.
You can sell it.
You can spend three weeks wondering why your parents owned 47 versions of the exact same thing.
There isn't one right answer.
And if selling eventually becomes one of the options you're considering, that's where someone like me can help you figure out what the house may actually be worth, whether selling as-is makes sense, what expenses could come out of the sale, and which questions need to go to an attorney or title company.
The goal of this little series isn't to convince everyone they need to sell their house.
It's to talk about the weird, stressful, complicated situations involving real estate that nobody really prepares us for.
Because sometimes you don't need a sales pitch. You just need someone to explain what the heck you're supposed to do next.
