u/ascendingPig

How do I sell 300 Jewish cemetery plots?

My family has inherited about 300 plots in a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn. They're pretty valuable, like $5K+ each I think. I don't intend to use all of them myself and they're burning a hole in my pocket.

From what my parents told me, my grandparents held them for some kind of immigrant mutual aid network in the ‘50s, which has long since dispersed. I don’t know anyone who may have been involved in that community, or their descendants (other than my own relatives). We’ve been using them one at a time whenever a cousin needs one, but I don’t have 300 cousins waiting to die.

How do I go about selling them all?

EDIT: Thank you for all the recommendations of who to contact! To those who think I should not be profiting from property that was intended for aid, I am sympathetic to the view. I have no idea how they came into possession. Legally the plots belonged to my grandparents but they likely intended for the use of their neighborhood of postwar refugees (long since dispersed). My guess is it involved the local burial society, which in traditional Jewish communities is a volunteer group. My family is still deciding what to do.

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u/ascendingPig — 3 days ago