Will list property for sale residentially (but likely to lose money) and commercially (which of course has long lag time).

Auctions are posted, times are posted, and those that don't show lose out whether they are representing the bank or even the home owner.

She's losing money.

I hope she did not lose too much earnest money.  

Check their calendar, if they don't have one, I'd think they would be running a pretty lose ship by the seat of their pants and be disorganized.....not good.I'd also leave my checkbook and credit cards at home.

They do have some on-line learning resources as I recall, also.Personally, I am affiliated with another REI education group and I am as BIG a proponent of "learn it before you try to do it" as anyone would be in any other field of endeavor, such as plumbing, carpentry, concrete, electrical work, culinary arts, tonsorial arts, etc.Here's how -I- measure the value of paid education: if paying whatever they're asking up front keeps you from losing 2- to 5-times or more that amount due to mistakes in a deal or structuring your business entities, was it worth it to get educated and prevent costly mistakes?...

The likelihood is that he is going to not perform, trash your property (what's he got to lose?)

Doing illegal things to try and take this into your own hands will cause you to lose even more money than you already are losing in lost rent.

It will require about 8-10k for a new paint job before we rent it though.On the other hand, if we sold the house, we would be losing around 20k after realtor fees, closing costs, etc.  

There is no win but lots of lose in this type of situation.