If they have an Exclusive Right-To-Buy Listing Contract (aka Buyer Agency documents) in place, I have an obligation to present them every deal that matches their criteria in that agreement.

You inherit them but you need an application on file for each adult tenant.

@Jason DiClemente I prefer to deal with people as adults.

I am exclusively invested overseas at the moment with a plan to expand more out in South America.

I hadn't realized there were folks who exclusively focus on 1031s (which in hindsight, duh!)

Also, an additional deal, if done right, could provide cash flow that he can allocate exclusively to his debt to help pay it down faster. 

Did the original agent leave the brokerage you had the exclusive with?

It's unlikely that any actual tax would be due because of the increased $11.18 million lifetime exclusion, but you're supposed to track the exemption used and technically have a filing requirement.

Aside from what Roland mentioned about the traditional path of selling, sometimes the seller is another investor who just wants to unload their properties, other times they are adult kids who have inherited unwanted properties to not have to deal with the costs of it.

Unfortunately if you signed an exclusive right to sell with the agent, then it probably says that even if you procure a buyer on your own you will owe the listing agent the 6%.