Or they may give you a flexible closing date to accommodate your sale.The most important key to the process is that you have a 1031 intermediary in place prior to the closing of your sale. 

If you listed a property for $1000 and said in the listing, we will be accepting best offer by X date, then you could accept offers.

To date, the lack of disclosure and transparency to what is happening behind the scenes is the cause for my concern.Again, thank you all for your replies.

To date, I’ve been using dropbox and making notes, but I haven’t done the best job in the last few months of keeping up.So, my question is versus going back and trying to log conversations, am I just wasting my time?

So guess what, that day and age when people have limited information, limited resources, limited networks, the internet has ended that age.

how much income do you want by these dates?

He probably provided work worth 15k to date. 

My question is can I use my own standard lease form modified to reflect the major elements of the existing lease (assuming that the tenant is in agreement) or would I be better advised to keep the exact wording of the existing lease and just change the relevant names and dates?

If they don't need the cash, but need the time, then move back the closing date.

@Jerry PuckettI did see a funny song on the internet "All my Exes Changed Their Sexes."