For Palm Beach County Probate & Estate Counsel
Practical Probate Property Resources for Your Clients
Help for the house questions that don't need to land on your desk.
Somewhere in every estate administration, a personal representative runs into a question about the house that isn't really a legal question — condition, value, taxes, insurance, what to do with it. Amanda handles that side. Join this list for occasional, practical resources you can use yourself or pass along to a client.
What Comes Up Mid-Administration
Probate creates practical property questions — most of them aren't legal questions.
Once there's a house involved, the personal representative starts asking things that don't really belong on a legal invoice:
- Property condition and needed repairs
- Current market value
- Property taxes and homestead considerations
- Insurance and occupancy while the estate is open
- HOA and condominium restrictions
- Ongoing maintenance during administration
- Local, vetted vendors and resources
- Rental considerations, if the family isn't ready to decide
- Preparing the home for sale, if that's the direction the family chooses
Amanda's Approach
Keep it. Rent it. Sell it.
All three are legitimate outcomes for an inherited home. Amanda doesn't start from the assumption that the house should be listed — her role is helping the personal representative and the family understand the property and the practical trade-offs behind each option, so whichever decision gets made is theirs, made with clear information.
Keep It
Sometimes the right answer is holding onto the property — for now, or for good.
Rent It
An income-producing option while the family decides, or a longer-term plan.
Sell It
The right call when it's the right call — not the default assumption.
See the client-facing guide to keeping, renting, or selling an inherited home →
What You'll Get
Occasional, practical, and easy to pass along.
- Resources you can use yourself when a property question comes up in a case
- Content built to forward or hand directly to a personal representative
- Practical flags for property issues that may deserve a closer look
- Fewer non-legal property questions landing on your desk
This isn't a newsletter on a schedule. Amanda sends something when it's genuinely useful — not because it's Tuesday.
Where Everyone Fits
You handle the estate. Amanda can help handle the house.
Estate Attorney
- Administration & fiduciary duties
- Court filings & deadlines
- Distribution to heirs
CPA
- Estate & income tax returns
- Basis step-up
- Tax-timing decisions
Amanda
- Property condition & value
- Timing & market realities
- What keep/rent/sell means for this house
Legal questions remain with counsel. Tax questions remain with the CPA. Amanda handles what happens with the house.
Why Amanda
Real estate expertise, probate specialization, legal fluency.
Amanda Sweetz is a Palm Beach County REALTOR®, Certified Probate Real Estate Specialist (CPRES), and an active Florida Registered Paralegal, FRP #1033928. Before entering real estate, she spent twelve years working in legal and court environments.
That background helps her understand how the property side fits alongside the probate process — and recognize when a question belongs with the estate attorney, CPA, insurance professional, or another specialist.
Legal fluency, not legal advice.
Resources for Your Clients, Too
A co-branded version of Amanda's inherited-home guide.
Amanda can prepare a version of her four-page guide, Nobody Hands You a Manual With the House, co-branded with your firm's information — something you can hand directly to a personal representative. There's no charge and no referral obligation. If it would be useful to your practice, mention it the next time you're in touch with Amanda at amandasweetz@kw.com.
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