Me and a partner of mine have been pooling together our resources in an attempt to land our first deal.

I think he attempted to regrout the bathroom with a darker color grout, but he certainly did not do a good job removing the existing grout.

Working in a crawl space is difficullt work (height) in existing homes, I would attempt to get the stone in the crawl at least to the height that the water height has risen (2") and then put in your vapor barrier.

They can either choose to do a quick cash sale, or list it it as is in an attempt to get more money.

A tactic of brokerages is to offer everything free and then incubate you with all of their stuff making it hard to leave or enact things that would make your business grow but is not inline with what they are doing.There are some benefits like mass advertising savings and agent networks with buyers especially for residential.

I attempted to lock the property in contract/agreement.

What I'm attempting to indicate in most areas this is a time cnsuming, costly project with engineering study requirements in most area.

Try and be as educated as possible on why this happened before attempting to sell, etc.

Of course you could always attempt to market directly to owners of property you're interested in.Also, there is no such thing as luck!

I have a contact for a colleague of his, who has attempted to contact his daughter, but the colleague hasn't been able to contact the contractor either.Any advice?