DuPage County real estate
Plain-English walkthroughs of the situations people call me about: probate and inherited property, downsizing, divorce, tenants, relocation. Written for DuPage County, not for a national blog.
Owner's guide · DuPage County The Paperwork a Tenant-Occupied Listing Needs Before It Goes Live A buyer, their lender and their attorney will all ask you for the same file.
Executor's guide · DuPage County Date-of-Death Value Versus What the House Will Actually Sell For The estate has one number. The market has another. They are allowed to be different,
Three routes out of a parent's house in Illinois - a living trust, a recorded transfer on death instrument, or probate - and how to tell which one you are on before you do anything else.
A DuPage County realtor's step-by-step order of operations for a successor trustee selling a house held in a trust: check the recorded deed, confirm the power to sell, get a certification of trust, insure the empty house, and set the date-of-death value.