legal guidance needed

I suggest preparing a complete accounting of all income and expenses as far back as when everyone was even, had received and paid their correct proportionate shares, or all the way back until you acquired the property. I would also find out what the property would sell for now. Then I would calculate their shares and their shares after deducting what they owe you. Can you buy them out for that amount? Could you refinance to raise the cash to buy them out? If so, I would show them all those calculations and offer to do so. If they refuse, then you could hire a lawyer to do the same. The letter from the lawyer would imply that you were prepared to sue to do this. The next letter would explain that you have the right to force the sale of the property via a court action for partition, but that this would not produce the best price, the repayment of what they owe you would be the same, and everyone would also lose a lot of legal fees. Normally, such a court action would take about a year. However, Governor Brown is not fully funding the courts. Staff layoffs and not replacing judges who have resigned, has already stretched it out to 18 months in Alameda, and is predicted to get worse next year. The only way to avoid "a long drawn out process" and one which will be expensive, is to negotiate and threaten, in order to make a deal. Dana Sack 510-286-2200