I was thinking that it was certainly time to strip the property of fixtures and copper ~ unless it's already in probate, so they'd probably have to report that as a robbery (it's a common sort of thing when you leave a house vacant).
We had a family do that here about 25 years back.
A Democrat party fund raising official bought it as a bargain ~
Somehow, the vultures always seem to know when someone is dead before the family even calls the funeral home. When my older brother passed away, I went to his office to collect what few things of value he had for his surviving daughter. The vultures had already put a seal on it. It would have cost us more to collect it through the probabte/litigation process than it was worth.
Most of it had little or no monetary value, only sentimental. The b*st*rds still wouldn't let us touch anything. I suppose we should have collected it before he died, but when a loved one is fighting for their life in a hospital, you don't always think clearly about that sort of thing.