Hopefully. y'all can form an LLC and hire a bulldog attorney for a class action suit to at least try to get financial documents from Norada Capital Management. to find out what exactly went wrong.

You'll probably get better service approaching it that way than hiring a professional manager anyway.  

Her and her husband are getting older so they hired us to manage. 

I hired an architect last week and he will submit plans to the city next week.

(that is, assuming you've hired an agent with experience, market knowledge, and the wisdom to be able to guide you to what you're looking for). 

Staying involved in a business partnership while dissolving the marriage will rarely work.If you split the properties, I recommend hiring a good property manager.

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

Here is a link to 100+ bartending jobs currently hiring in Toronto. 

@Michael Plaks comments in this recent post on making sure the person you hire understands real estate sounds really relevant to your situation.  

I'm sure there are many more experiences where the contractor hasn't fulfilled their scope of work and gotten away with rushing the project to meet the deadline, And, I don't want to be as naive to say that I'm that 1% who can have complete quality/operational control, but I'm confident I can establish a system and hire independent inspectors to review the contractor's work.