In 2020, we were contacted by a woman who had received a piece of mail we’d sent to her mother’s home in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Her mother had recently passed away, and she was flying in from out of state for just one week to check on the house and, ideally, get it under contract before she had to head back home.
One week. That was the window she had to sort through a lifetime of her mother’s belongings, handle the emotional weight of being in the house again, and figure out what to do with the property — all while living hundreds of miles away. She had actually worked as a realtor in the past, so she knew exactly what listing on the MLS would involve: showings, inspections, negotiations, potential repairs, and weeks or months of back-and-forth from a distance. That wasn’t what she wanted. She wanted convenience and certainty, and she wanted to be able to move on.
She accepted our offer on her mother’s home, and we got to work. Within three weeks, we closed on the property. Because she was out of state, we arranged for her to sign the sale documents at a title company near her, which then mailed the signed documents to our title company here in Oklahoma. She didn’t have to fly back, she didn’t have to juggle mail-in notaries or overnight shipping on her own, and she didn’t have to keep the house hanging over her head for months.
For an out-of-state heir trying to close a difficult chapter from a distance, the simplest path forward was the right one.