I know what money I spent wisely and which I wasted.

Our present realtor said "Don't waste your time on staging", but we felt with a small house, it would be beneficial.

If you're in an area well covered by, let's say Redfin, I think you're wasting money on the MLS (by the way, I have the MLS as a Realtor).

When I bought the $53k one (for $14k), I made sure my ARV was going to be over $50k because of the financing, but I did get like 3 cash offers on that thing.You get a lot of cash sales in the higher end stuff, and my buyer at $295k was pretty loaded and was gonna do some real work on the house.

"Haste makes waste."

Also had to replace the float on the septic pump before the house started backing up with waste.

Leave the number you use for postings at the property, and record a voicemail that clearly lays out your qualifications to avoid wasting your time.

After that, some say things like "we do quality work, blah, blah, blah" or " I do it right".This can be good and get to a meeting of the minds before wasting my time and theirs, they can also be saying that stuff saying they don't want the job, so I go for that, are you interested in taking the job as I need it?

If you care, your brother could send a letter to whatever 1031 Intermediary that was handling it, if you know, letting them know the 1031 never occurred...but no benefit to you guys and likely a waste of time.

I will up load the file it I can find it.