Has anyone else inherited a property and realized they don't actually know what they own

Yeah, that zip is west Akron and those rents are pretty low even for that market. I have seen units in 44303 renting closer to $850 to $950 lately, so there is real upside if you wanted to hold. The buyer side of reverse wholesaling is absolutely hunting for exactly this: clear title, long-term tenants, motivated seller who does not want the headache.

That zip is legitimately under-rented for 2024, but the more pressing issue is you don't have a real picture of expenses yet and that changes everything. Pull the Summit County Auditor site right now, look up the parcel, and you will see the assessed value, the current tax bill, and whether there are any delinquencies you just became responsible for. Akron water and sewer bills attach to the property not the owner so if the previous tenants or your aunt ran those up you may be holding that too. Call the city at 330-375-2040 and ask about any open code violations on the address. 44303 has had active inspection pressure over the last couple years and inherited properties sometimes come with notices that never got resolved.

On the reverse wholesaling angle, yes you are exactly what that buyer pool is looking for, a motivated but not desperate seller with long-term tenants already in place. The pitch you will hear is that they already have a buyer lined up who wants cash-flowing rentals in secondary Ohio markets. That part is sometimes true. The part to watch is that $675 and $700 month-to-month in that neighborhood means a new owner could push those to $850 to $900 pretty fast after a light rehab, and whoever structures the deal between you and that end buyer is going to price that upside into their own spread, not yours. You don't need to be in a hurry here, both tenants paying and month-to-month actually gives you options, it doesn't take them away.

44303 duplexes have been trading in the low to mid 100s depending on condition, so your gross rent of $1,375 a month is thin relative to what a buyer expecting market rents would underwrite. The month-to-month piece is actually useful leverage, not a liability, because a buyer who wants to reposition the rents or owner-occupy one side can do that without fighting a fixed lease. Before I did anything I would want to know what the utility setup looks like, whether the tenants pay their own gas and electric or whether you inherited a master-metered situation your aunt was quietly eating for years, because that changes the real number fast.