There's obviously a lot of smaller tasks that needed to be handled (maintenance coordination, leasing coordination, administrative work), so for those jobs we outsourced to VAs.After trying out a few different companies with the same lackluster results, our CEO wound up starting his own VA company that focuses on finding quality VAs, developing streamlined processes and systems, and properly training the VAs. 4 years later and we've since 20X'd our portfolio and greatly improved our bottom line, now owning and managing 400+ units.

Many of the desperate sellers who believed the wholesalers wound up in foreclosure, and rightly or wrongly found the wholesalers easy to blame, found the Realtor Association eager to get rid of the wholesalers, and so the Realtors Associations began complaining to the State Real Estate Commissions.

This may impact both your basis and whether or not the estate should have recognized a gain--which may be pushed out to you anyway if you received the condo in the same year the estate wound up.Based on what you wrote, it seems most likely that your basis will be the value of the condo on the date your relative passed away.

How wound you compare EEV versus Bagley for appreciation?

I agree with you that he should have just told you, but lick your wounds and move on.

He was great to run things by, and also wound up being the main contractor working with me on this project.

I wound up renting it out until I could get a decent price whem the market recovered but everything was such a hassle I didnt do anything again until 2017.

The tenant wound up moving out and my current tenants don't have pets. 

It was after loosing confidence in myself after licking my wounds from the housing market crash. 

They manage all aspects of the investment on behalf of the investors until the investment is wound up.