I’m flying out to Seattle this weekend to take another step in the probat process after my mother’s death. I’m meeting with lawyers and bankers — can you imagine anything more fun?
I’ve been getting all this paperwork together, going through my mother’s birth certificate, marriage certificate, social security card, death certificate, etc., etc., etc. I’ve also got all the same stuff for my father — they skipped probate at his death, since everything was in both my mother and father’s name at that time, but now all that has caught up to me. It’s depressing to see a whole life reduced to a small pile of papers.
Next week everything gets shut down, her official existence is over, and every penny gets shuffled into an account in my name, before I have to start divvying it up and sending checks to all the heirs…after we sell off the house. Anyone want to buy a 4 bedroom house on the road between Auburn and Lake Tapps? It was good enough for almost 50 years of homey living and 6 kids.
I hope to have PZ’s maturity and ability to see the positives when my aging parents eventually leave this world. Also, you can share the listing of the house if you want. I might tell my sister and her husband about it as they live rather close to the house and would like to start their own family one day (renting a small-ish home isn’t ideal as you can imagine).
Once we get it listed, I promise I’ll be advertising it.
Don’t be shocked (I was) the estimates we’ve seen on the place so far have been in the $400,000 range. Seattle area housing prices!