Even with a completed sale often times you might need/want to pay a lawyer to do a quiet title action to quell any possibly attempts to reverse the sale by an interested party.

It's hard to tell if Josh knows this and is just trying to blackmail me in an attempt to get me to try to work on his behalf in twisting the sellers arm to do what Josh wants.

He also doesn't control regulations in the states/cities, but his attempts to cut regulations may trickle down and impact personal property rights and people's ability to use their properties as they see fit.

There are some accountants out there who say that the very act of doing a 1031 exchange is an attempt to avoid tax and so a 1031 purchase from a related party is a non-starter. 

I have one listing that I'm able to make updates to, I just decided not to given the prior attempts.  

One particular point can not be over emphasized; even if someone has and is willing to invest the capital in attempting to build or scale their business or investments, they still May fail if they do not possess or can not evaluate those who CLAIM to possess the necessary expertise required for scaling. 

Yeah, I think you may be missing an attempt at humor here....but then you are an accountant..... :-)

Their pivot to ADUs more recently is an attempt to increase affordable housing in many of those same areas. 

At this point, I simply want to move on and feel the exit interview is a final attempt to have me sign things that I don't agree to.

If I come off snarky, well it's because I'm urked at the hijacking this conversation for such low-brow marketing attempt, and at using wildly false info.