Some homes are sold after a person has passed away. Probate is often necessary before these homes can be sold. It can add more time but doesn’t really prevent the house from being placed on the market and sold at a fair price.Here are a few things to know if you’re thinking about selling a house before probate has finished.

Some homes that are put up for sale have been placed in an irrevocable trust. This type of trust can’t be changed in any way by the person who created it. Irrevocable trusts take homes and other tangible assets out of a specific person’s name so that their personal net worth can’t be altered and to protect against possible claims made by creditors. They can be sold, but these transactions are typically more complicated than traditional home sales.

It was a cold and dreary Friday afternoon in December.  All the work to make the house look just perfect was done. The only thing left was to have the house inspected. That seemed like a non-issue since the seller had never had any significant problems with it. The home inspector had gone all through