Get involved with your local REIAs and get volunteering!

Maybe, just maybe, the brother can claim an equitable lien for the money he's advanced but if I were the kids I'd claim he acted as a volunteer and the money was either a gift or a scheme to defraud me of my inheritance. 

He told me 1 of his problem areas is finding quality tenants and I volunteered to help him because I’ve had good success in the past finding quality tenants.

Volunteer realtors are not enough.

One of the tenants wives has volunteered for food prep and cooking. 

As soon as you join VOLUNTEER to help.

Combined with Facebook ads, a blog, some neighborhood volunteering and networking.Most people are not going to do all of that.

Are you volunteering?

got that fixed-- but not after some translation confusion when my plumber replaced the main water line, and not the sewer line $$$, not to be outdone by another house 3 days ago, main line was backed up and  i guess popped a cap off, ----somehow the poop/pee was legit going under the house, got that fixed... feel really bad, but the plumber made a lot of money for how crappy the job was.... then a tenant complained of "rusty hinges" that made a door fall off, lol own up to the fact someone kicked your door in because you're involved with sketchy stuff ..still waiting to get paid for all this insanely stressful volunteer work that's apparently super lucrative on paper.... so i'd say sh*tty,.. it's going sh*tty!   

I was a volunteer fireman for about 10 years.