I don't tell people how to do a 5 way bypass even though it is a cookie cutter surgery now a days and there may be a book on it or a software program that might explain how to do it.

This was done to save money.Your plumber had no way of knowing that the original sink installation was rigged with epoxy. 

"The tree cutters will be there on Monday to grind that stump". 

And don't work with cookie cutter methods.

Cookie cutter homes on tiny lots, some McMansions and a sea of terra cotta tile roofs.North of Sheldon Rd on the West side isn't Elk Grove anymore, and neighborhood quality quickly drops from B to C then to D in a matter of blocks.

I should have been a nurse, but I grew up in Wyoming and summers found me covered in contempt and pipe grease while I worked on oil rigs.

How deep this one goes is an unknown; however, we have never seen this kind of monetary manipulation in history and monetary manipulations usually always end badly not because they cannot work but because the one's doing the manipulating are in it for themselves and could care less for the 99% of us that have to work hard making ends meet and trying to get ahead in a rigged game.  

3) Keep looking for a savvy handyman that can rig something up and restore the windows.What do you guys recommend?

Here is a story for you, I have a tractor trailer rig to pull my race car and hotrods places, a CHP inspector told me that 90% of the people from his country that drive trucks come to America buy a simitruck and drive with no licence!

Any system of operation you put in place must be flexible, it must adapt to market conditions, it needs to support a variety of controls to employ different methods, real estate is not a cookie cutter business.