[shhrubbery!]

A quick claim deed?

Yes, I believe it was a "quit claim deed." (Don't remember where I saw that, can't find it in the record I posted but I did see it somewhere.)

I don't know what that means. Does it give you some clue as to what was going on there?

[caseinpoint]

A quitclaim deed is normal in a friendly transaction, often intra-family in gift or partial gift situations. What it means is the seller offers no warranties on the property as to title, condition, etc. and merely deeds whatever right he or she had to the new owner. No one who is negotiating at arms-length is going to accept that kind of non-warranty since the owner could, in fact, be transferring absolutely nothing.

[caseinpoint]

A quitclaim deed is normal in a friendly transaction, often intra-family in gift or partial gift situations. What it means is the seller offers no warranties on the property as to title, condition, etc. and merely deeds whatever right he or she had to the new owner. No one who is negotiating at arms-length is going to accept that kind of non-warranty since the owner could, in fact, be transferring absolutely nothing.

[Political Junkie Too]

Sometimes a quit-claim deed is used to remove a family member from the title.

-PJ

[SauronOfMordor]

A quit claim deed. It seems it's most often used to transfer property between family members

How much you want to bet that the father of the kids was working mostly off the books for the wealthy grandfather, fixing up the grandfather's properties for resale? Meanwhile the grandfather could pay for the grandkids education at the expensive private school