After you hear back from the city, you can then make your case with respect to the public interest in releasing this information, if necessary.

Will the next buyer make the community safer and a place that shows respect for those living there.

I would not be eligible for a 1031 exchange, and when looking at refinance rates on 3% and 5.5% rates respectively, the numbers would not make sense to keep the properties and scale. 

While the sister serving as executrix may or may not have ownership, suggest you show her some respect going through her if the intent is to gain ownership.

With respect to the "reasonablness", what do you own against the property?

Make sure to introduce yourself, let them know they can reach out should they ever have a problem and let your students know they must be respectful.

With all due respect, BP does not vet brokers.

I do respect their data guy, John Bianchi, though. 

If you sell two properties at, say, $700K and $300K respectively, then you can either combine those into a single exchange and buy at least $1M of replacement properties OR you can split them and have one exchange trade for at least $700K and another for at least $300K

I totally agree and had he listed 'prepping caulking and taping house exterior' as a separate 'project' and 'painting house exterior' each with its own separate respective labor quote, I would then consider.However since he and I have discussed the CSLB limit time and time again, yet he still had the nerve to just simply list (on a spreadsheet) $500 labor for painting the house alone, and handed me the sheet with a statement that my compensation is not 'fair', the long and short of it is this person who I consider a friend, isn't any longer a viable handyman for law is law, business is business, and fair is fair.Note: had he quoted something like $400 or something for painting house, I would be glad to negotiate with him (ie, maybe he was under the misunderstanding that $100 would be enough for paint) but he didnt.