Call them.

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So, we decided to ride it out and go through the legal process.

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So, things change a bit.If it is his personal home, there are more restrictions.For an investment property, if you take over his financing, read through the deed of trust (mortgage) and see how they handle transfer of ownership.

I went in a different direction so no info to offer here.

The agent works "for free" until the house sells, so taking them out of the deal is theft, and immoral."

So a majority of the ownership groups would want to sell, plus since they are more sophisticated owners usually would sell through a broker to get max price and not sell privately.  

Also if this property is on septic that also can throw a wrench into the ability to call a space "a bedroom" as septic systems are sized and permitted based on the bedrooms.

I do SMS, cold call, mail, online, wholesalers, etc.