It is always prudent to obtain a copy of your estimated settlement/closing statement a few days prior to close and have your tax advisor crunch the number so that you know what items must be paid for out of pocket and which are considered permissible 1031 exchange closing costs.

What they have in mind may be of no interest to you the specific relationship and profit sharing are items that should be discussed on a broad basis to evaluate where you are on the pecking order and then take it from there.

Jenny - If you must, get any family personal items out of the mobile.

Make assumptions on what you need for big ticket maintenance items (roof, siding, water heater etc) over the life of the home.

Any item that is a "0" (or false) will result in a zero score.

If the Germans are willing to buy farm plots just to have a yard, I could see them renting a storage unit to have somewhere to store items.

I've started to reach out to the local banks but am in the early innings on getting that work item completed.

So you can still claim the $3000 under the routine maintenance safe harbor but you cannot elect SHST for that property, instead you need to classify every item of that remaining $4000 and test each item's effect on it's respective UOP. 

It needs about $10k in repairs, $4k for foundation work, $4k for a new roof and misc cosmetic items.  

Ask the underwriting/loan rep to tell or send you the item that caused the flag to trigger.