This workbook will guide you through the process without fighting, compromising your loved one's legacy or giving away the house.
Family pressure. HOA letters. Property taxes. A sibling who wants to clean out the house this weekend. A sibling who hasn't spoken since the funeral.
Most families lose equity in the first ninety days — not because they made bad decisions, but because they made decisions in the wrong order.
This workbook is where I'd want my family to start.
We run the real estate arm of our family office. Inherited property is most of what crosses my desk now — not because it's trendy, but because it's where the most value gets destroyed by people who are grieving and guessing at the same time.
You don't need another agent. You need somebody who answers the first question first.
50 pages of worksheets, charts, and decisions that most families only figure out eighteen months too late.
When Vanessa inherited her mother's Arlington home, she had no mortgage and no missed payments — but a thirty-year title dispute that reached back further than she'd been alive.
We cleared it. We paid her loan modification out of our own pocket to buy the time. We closed the sale before the foreclosure date hit the calendar.
Deidra inherited a five-property portfolio through her father's estate. The family assumed probate was in Maryland. It was in DC. Different court. Different timeline.
We untangled the probate, ran a contents sale that put cash in the family's hands before closing, and set the first property up for a clean sale with a backend plan for the other four.
For most families, property equity makes up nearly half of your family's net worth. This workbook will help you protect it.
No pressure. No pushy follow-up. Just the guide I wish my family had when we needed one.
Yes. No credit card, no trial, no catch. It’s the same guide we hand to families who sit at our table, built so you can use it whether you ever work with us or not.
You get the workbook delivered to your inbox within a minute, and the next page gives you the option to book a quiet 15-minute call with me if you’d rather talk than read.
You’ll also get a short email series over the following weeks with the real-world patterns we see in inherited property files — nothing salesy, no pressure to list, no DMs. Unsubscribe anytime.
Especially then. Half of the workbook is designed for exactly this situation — the family-conflict chart, the “Who Gets What” worksheet, and the keep-vs-rent-vs-sell comparison give you shared language instead of a sibling tug-of-war.
Most of the families we work with came to us stuck. The workbook is the first step that unsticks the conversation without anyone having to be the bad guy.
Yes. The decisions, the deadlines, and the family dynamics are the same everywhere. The workbook is written for any heir in any state.
What’s different by state is probate court, title timelines, and tax treatment. If you’re outside our footprint and want help picking the right local professionals, book the 15-minute call and I’ll point you toward people who do this work the way we do.
No. The workbook exists because most families don’t need a listing — they need a plan.
Sometimes selling is the right answer. Sometimes it’s renting, seller-financing to a family member, converting to income, or holding and waiting. The workbook walks you through the comparison with your family’s numbers, not ours.
Then read the first few pages and put it away. The workbook was built for exactly this moment — the one where you aren’t ready, but you don’t want the clock running in silence behind you.
Grief has its own timeline. The house has a different one. The workbook helps you see where those two timelines meet so you aren’t surprised later.
Eminent Estates is the real estate arm of the Wanzer Family Office, co-founded by Ja’el Thomas and her mother, Stacey Thomas. Ja’el is a licensed agent in Virginia, DC, and Maryland. The firm specializes in inherited and estate property for families who want the work done with dignity, not a cattle call.
We help families protect what gets passed down — on their own timeline, with their own voice, and without losing the house to the clock.