MIA landlord died

[dwells]

What is the name of your state? ME
HOA can't find any information out other than she died.
I googled her name, nothing, I've been checking out the obits in her area and nothing came up. No relatives have called us back.
What happens in this situation?

 

[BL]

What is the name of your state? ME
HOA can't find any information out other than she died.
I googled her name, nothing, I've been checking out the obits in her area and nothing came up. No relatives have called us back.
What happens in this situation?

How do you know she died ?

 

[dwells]

One of the neighbors on the HOA board called the police, they were hesitant in giving information after he explained the situation they told him she was deceased.
He came over to tell me, I called the husband, husband called realtor. Realtor just got off the phone with relative. Details are fuzzy but we'll get more info later I assume. Something like she was gone for awhile, found in the home, contacting relatives slipped through the cracks. All I can assume is she isn't close with her family because when we called and left messages no one called us back or put two and two together. There is also a husband somewhere in the mix but the relative will contact the realtor in terms of moving forward.
I guess I have to put stop payments on the checks and wait to find out his info to send the past rent to.
The last rent check cashed was Nov and now in April this is coming out. We were the ones calling the family looking for her. Odd.
Relative didn't say much to realtor only that he just found out ?????
Realtor called the father just a week or so ago and the father must have been really senile.

How do you know she died ?

 

[ecmst12]

Don't stop the checks unless someone asks you to. The checks can be cashed by LL's estate, and probably won't need to be re-issued.

 

[dwells]

I just want to thank everyone for the different opinions and insights into the situation.
We do have a small porthole of communication although not direct and we don't have much more information but it's something. I'm trying to keep the rabid HOA members at bay. They have money owed to them and we are at a stand still but the family has just been notified and the landlord isn't even buried yet. Poor soul, young and her death went unnoticed for months. Well we noticed something was wrong but what were we to do? 4 months dead in a house and no one ... whatever.
From this short communication I've had with this forum, I know my options.

Thank you very much.

 

[dwells]

All our rent checks came back in the mail.
We aren't opening them just in case.

We are staying and waiting. We contacted the other place we were going to move into and told them. We didn't have a lease or anything. We told them we were interested. I'm sure they are mad but what can we do? I think we need to get this out of the way and pay the family all the rent we owe.