Under a full guardianship that means we are untimately responsible for everything, income, expenses, housing and medical decisions, taxes, debts, mortgages, wills and estate planning, suing or being sued, investments, real property, unique asset liquidations like oil/gas leases, coins, fine art, notes, cars, foreign real estate, boats, wine, financial exploitation investigations including forensic accounting, criminal and civil trial testimony and recovery of funds when we are lucky, budgeting for liquidation of assets in order to fund medical and care expenses, (I could go on for hours); basically everything you can think of in your life... imagine someone else having to do that for you because you're incapacitated.In my work I'd estimate I've been involved in the sale of 300-400 properties, maybe 100 probate cases and many hundreds of guardianship and DPOA cases.  

If you own multiple properties those combined reserves can be used to cover short term shortages of an individual property.  

They fail to understand that motivation itself is a near worthless, fleeting emotion, especially compared to making the effort to form good-habits and discipline combined with gumption. 

I'm assuming because everything else was somewhat cookie cutter for him and this is a unique transaction for both him and I.

I'm, of course, talking in generalities because each specific case has its own set of unique circumstances, but we're seeing a lot of people who were traditionally flippers altering part of their focus to a buy-and-hold mentality - and they're seeing even greater ROI.

Loopnet is so legit, it has a Wikipedia page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoopNet"LoopNet is the most heavily trafficked commercial real estate marketplace online with more than 8 million registered members and 5 million unique monthly visitors." 

I'll second what both @Natalie Vane and @Paul Caputo said, with a further note that these two strategies can be combined to great effect.Natalie is correct that if your mother keeps the property until she dies, and leaves it to you in her will or trust, then the tax basis resets to the current market value at the time of her death.

Point out to the appraiser items that are new or of especially good quality, as well as unique features that might improve it's value.

I'm a partner in a sort of unique company that is a full service appraisal firm (all property types) but also provides civil engineering (mainly subdivision design and development), land surveying and title analysis services.

Its a unique property.