Then 10-15 days later the mother and father went in and started seeking medical treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning.

@Rachael Britton You do not need a realtor to submit an offer for a property, but if you are dealing with the Seller's Agent directly, understand that unless/until their status changes to Transaction Broker, they will continue to be the Seller's Agent, meaning they are only working in the Seller's best interest and owe you basically nothing besides fair and honest treatment.

We were also out $150 for our cleaning company and a couple of weeks rent.This was an overdose and the insurance  didn't cover any drug related damage but did cover damages from body in unit for several days.

You also will likely want to understand the costs included in purchasing and renovating that either get capitalized or deducted or no treatment.

In order to have long-term capital gains treatment, outside of inheritance situations, you must have owned the property for at least 1 year. 

If I were to create a graph or chart that shows out of 10 possible candidates to hire, and show the amount that have a drug or alcohol problem, you would be shocked.

., Without documentation that the property has been held for investment it would not qualify for 1031 treatment. 

I do believe he has a niece that is strung out on drugs.

His sister is a drug addict and currently he doesn't know where she is.

Even the most well documented exception in the special treatment of one borrower over another is going to get the lender fined or worse for not applying that same exact treatment to all borrowers.