Now the tax liability is about $140K.Had I known above, would not have sold the property, would have held it as usual or sought 1031 exchange.Before confronting him, need to have second opinion of truth of the situation - what is the correct - first calculation or second.    

When I confronted them they lied and said they were not trying to wholesale it (yet it was on their website).

Getting confrontational is not the best path.

I guess he thought I would check the proposal and just sign off on them.The bottom two cases, I have no problem confronting them. 

We're trying to find out, before we confront our own agent, how anybody would have gotten a hold of our emails from several years ago  

Dead bodies, overdosing people, rattlesnakes, people that won't move out, one tenant fooling around with another tenants wife, break ins, confronting intruders.

Remain professional and avoid confrontation ... you don't want to end up in jail or in the hospital.

Get them to justify the situation, non-confronting, and perhaps there is more to this then you might think.  

Some invest in rough areas and make good money but I just don't want to deal with the hassle of confronting non-paying tenants and having to evict tenants often and/or pushing them to pay late rent fees.

That the borrower brought himself current and finally paid the lender is what the borrower is contractually obligated to do.When I counsel consumers on how to clean their credit, I'm often confronted with, "But I owe only $100 to one collection agency!