How it works.

Before you hear from us

We read the county records. When a recorded owner has died and nothing has been filed since, we work out who the law would expect to hold an interest — normally a spouse, children, parents or siblings — and we look for a current address. Then we send a package. We use a courier because these letters get thrown away when they look like junk mail, and this one matters.

The first conversation

You call us, or you leave your details and we call you. Before that call, a case manager pulls the deed, the probate file if one exists, the liens and the amounts outstanding — so the conversation is about your actual property rather than a script. Ask anything. Bring a relative or your own attorney. There is no cost and nothing is decided on that call.

We find out who actually owns it

This is the part nobody enjoys and it is the whole job. Deeds get misread. People remarry. A spouse may hold only a life estate while the children hold the remainder. An heir who died in 2019 has heirs of their own now. We establish what the record actually shows, and where the record is silent, what a court would need to see.

We tell you what we found

Including when the answer is bad. If you have no interest in the property, you hear that, and that is the end of it — you owe us nothing and you will not hear from us again. If you do have an interest, we show you what is against the property, what we think is realistically recoverable, and what we would be asking for. This happens before anything is signed.

If you decide to go ahead

We retain the probate attorney and we pay them. We pay the court costs, the filing and recording fees, and the title work. Where something is about to be lost — a tax deed sale, an association foreclosure — we pay that off to stop it. You are given the written agreement to read, with your own attorney if you want one, before you sign it.

How we are paid

Out of the property, not out of you. We are a private company and we acquire an interest in the estate's property; that interest is how we make money, and the terms are in the agreement in plain figures. You are never asked for a fee, a retainer, a share of costs, or your bank details. If the work fails, the money we spent stays lost to us.

If you change your mind

Tell us. You can stop talking to us at any point before you sign, for any reason or none. After signing, whatever rights you have to cancel are set out in the agreement itself and we will walk you through them rather than leave you to find them.