Is it possible to appoint a new Trustee?

She is the trustee for my parents' estate. They both passed away and now she is handling our inheritance. She does a very bad job informing us of what is happening, I am not sure what accounts she even oversees and what the amounts are in each account. If she were to make large mistakes or misplace money, I wouldn't even be able to find out. In addition to this, she has a very hostile relationship with me in particular, and goes out of her way to belittle me and put me down because she doesn't agree with me on issues such as our real estate properties. Both of my brothers and I grew up working on real estate properties with our father, and now that she is controlling the properties, we have noticed a LOT of mistakes. She is purposely cutting corners to save money and it has resulted in us having to complete the work twice. She evicted our old tenant who was paying ~$1200 a month on our condo, did some renovation work in the condo and then proceeded to put a family friend in the condo as a new tenant at ~$800 a month. We were really upset with the decision because we didn't want to mix business and social relationships and we really didn't want them in our property. If (it hasn't happened yet) they stop paying rent or damage the property, we are going to be in a really awkward situation. The renovation work she did was rushed and we have had to re-do most of it. For example, we had hand-made cabinets in our property and she hired a local handy-man to install cabinet handles on them. My brother (a beneficiary) has >5 years of cabinetry experience and we insisted that we hire a professional. She wouldn't have it, insisting that we would save money (like maybe $40-$100) having this handyman install the handles instead of a professional. The handyman installed every handle off-center and mis-matched handle sets without checking to make sure they were the same. Now we have holes in every cabinet we had to fill, and we had to hire someone a second time to come in and do it the right way. This keeps happening, not necessarily the handyman thing, but the idea that everything we (the beneficiaries) say is wrong, and that she is the only one that can be right. It has now devolved into a power struggle between us and her and she is picking and choosing what to share with us. As recently as yesterday, I was told by my brother that she has been contacting him and discussing the real estate business with him. I am an officer in the Real Estate LLC and I was not informed about anything. She has been doing work on the properties from over the phone (she lives across the country) and wasn't telling me about any of it. My other brother is excluded from literally everything. She has absolutely zero respect for him because she doesn't like his wife. He is so far in the dark he honestly had no idea that he was inheriting anything more in the future. It is all really petty stuff that comes down to communication, but it has been two years since my father passed and it has not gotten better. She is really nasty and disrespectful to my uncle (the other trustee) and belittles his knowledge and encourages him to stay uninvolved with the trust.

I just want to reset the family relationships. I honestly don't care that we have a trust or trustees, I just care that SHE is our trustee. She is not a nice person and she has a huge ego right now. I would rather have a bank act as trustee at this point.

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