Exector of a will won't answer queries from beneficiaries (parent dead almost 2 years).

While I sympathise with the situation you find yourself in, I'm afraid Jim is probably correct. Even if by law they have to give you the information you are looking for, you have no legal method of forcing them to do so except through the courts. The fact this has taken over a year means the executor is already in a position where they can find themselves sued. Add to that the issue of non-maintenance of the property which could lead to a devaluation of assets, which is exactly the opposite of what an executor should be doing. I don't see how else you can go forward without at least talking to a solicitor.

Have you contacted the original solicitor your parents employed while drawing up the will and naming executor?

I would have thought they still have some level of duty of care until probate is finalised.

I'd be contacting them, if I got no where with them I'd be hiring my own solicitor and finding out exactly what legal options are available to me.

1. Always ask in writing. It will help when you sue the estate / executor later.
2. Preferably ask via your solicitor. They will word it in a way that will elicit a response.

Fair enough at least the op would know that's a dead end.

At this point I'd be engaging with a solicitor to sue the executor. I know forking out more money is far from ideal plus the added stress but if the property is falling into disrepair and not selling at market price etc you're losing money anyway by doing nothing.

No. The Probate Office isn't a regulatory agency. Their response will be "take it up with the executor and, if you're not satisfied with the outcome of that, you have the option of instituting court proceedings".

I think cailin70 may in fact be a victim of some king of a glitch in the board's software.

My reply, which currently appears as post #2, wasn't in fact the second post in the thread. If you look at the time stamp you can see that it came after posts #3 to #9. I don't know why it now appears as post #2.

So, the way the posts are ordered now, it looks as though when cailin70 posted posts #3 and #6 she was ignoring post #2. She wasn't; post #2 wasn't there then.

Solicitor + High Court. Have your spoken to any other beneficiaries of the Will?

It's relatively straightforward, it's something which just doesn't fit the Boards model. When you create a discussion on the new Vanilla platform, you can either choose "New Discussion" or "Ask a question" - both result in a new thread, but if you select the latter, you then have the option to mark replies as an "answer". If you mark a reply as an answer, it gets brought to the top of the replies (and you can mark more than one reply, so multiple posts could be moved).

In some forums, this makes sense (e.g. tech support forums, where it might take a lot of back and forth to get a solution, but once you have it, the solution post is the only interesting part of the discussion). On Boards, it completely breaks the established linear flow. It should have been disabled before the migration to Vanilla happened, but it wasn't