They are simply taking the risk of loosing the earnest money and finding an in buyer with in the 45 days.

There are just too many contractors and other service providers out here today who are simply ripping people off.

I know there are personal situations such as financial crunches and divorces, where one simply wants to get rid of the property.

Because you cannot simply "threaten them with the police".

It is my understanding (although I'm no CPA) that there is no hard and fast parameter or time constraint for a 1031...it is simply the intent ..

Not sure why it's going to take you a month to get the place ready to rent if it just needs "a few repairs", but I'd work on cutting that timeline way down.

Do I simply wait for a court proceeding and make a case that I lost use of the apt for Sept. now and move to keep the $600 or $753?

At the meeting, an owner brought up the fact that some were simply providing a photo to the lifeguard for his file at the start of the season, including photos of kids' friends, relatives, etc., who don't live there, when the standing rule is it must be submitted through the association management (to ensure actual owner or tenant photo), then association should submit it to lifeguard.

Transactional funds (or the cuts into my profit) are something I wanted to avoid.

Do you clean it out, take the board down for staging and picture purposes, cut the grass...I know many of you may say properties are sold "AS IS".