Now the last tree I had removed was 5 years ago and the arborist took it to a friends house that has a mill where he was planning on milling the tree into oak flooring for a house he was building.My question is should I bother trying to get some value out of this tree one way or another?

However, I'm getting conflicting information regarding the Probate process in CA, where all properties must go through the overbid process, and properties cannot sell for less than 90% of the appraised value. 

For us BP people, we can see the potential in a fresh coat of off-white paint where regular people just see a gross ugly house.  

Throw an LLC together with a few people with $1m each, and buy it, San Francisco isn't short of folks who got lucky with this or that IPO and have the money, most of those tech companies have an unofficial employee-maintained slack/discord channel where they talk about real estate stuff.

If it were me, I'd search the net for title attorneys, preferably in the county where the property is located.In my opinion, the onus is on the third party to prove up the terms of the agreement. 

Not paying fees and commissions when to unlicensed salespeople where none is disclosed.

Looking forward to where this leads and any connections that may develop.

Its a 200 unit complex being where she had listed and sold multiple units for them.

@Sean Haran, it looks like you are in a Cali where housing stock is MUCH newer on average than places in the northeast and rust belt.

Things to think about include how the market is doing, your own money situation, what you aim to achieve, and the kind of property and where it is.