If you like the house and the area and want to live there and its habitable, go ahead and try to get a plain vanilla conventional loan from the local credit union and mortgage broker. 

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?

technically it happens all the time, but real estate is less liquid thus its more obvious. ever try and buy a stock at a specific price and that price is no longer valid because the price changed.

They really don’t care about you.Alternatively, if the handwriting is not already on the wall, you can try to placate them piecemeal, but this may never end.We have an Anti-Money Laundering Declaration in our loan documents and so should you.

They do try to find the MOST similar properties possible because the less adjustments they need to make the more accurate/useful that appraisal number is.

Thanks You can go down to $55k but the property purchase price and value must be $75k

Would you try and get it sold before July 1, or does it matter?

Have you tried Facebook marketplace?

Try getting a couple of different quotes or even a broker who can shop all the best lenders possible for you!

I know all this deferred tax must be repaid if I were to sell without a 1031, so that tips the scales in favor of the DST option.