Can a real estate agent actually help when my family can't agree on what to do with mom's house?

Yes, and often a good agent is the only person in the room without an agenda. When families are trying to sort out a parent's housing situation, the disagreements are rarely about the house. They are about fear, history, guilt, and money. A clear, steady outside voice can hold the practical facts in place while the emotion runs its course. That is a real and underappreciated part of what I do. Most families I work with in Denver are not fighting because they do not care. They are fighting because they all care in different directions. One sibling wants to sell quickly. Another wants to wait. A parent may still be living in the home and nobody wants to have the hard conversation directly. In that room, my job is not to push anyone toward a decision. My job is to lay out the actual choices, what they cost, what they protect, and what the real timing looks like in this market, and then stay out of the way until I am needed again. The families who make the best decisions are not the ones who moved fastest. They are the ones who had a clear, respectful plan before anything was signed. If your family is somewhere in the middle of that conversation right now, I am not going to rush you. But I will tell you that waiting without a plan is its own kind of decision, and it rarely favors the person who needs protecting the most. Here is the question I would ask you: Is there one person in your family carrying this conversation alone right now, and does that person in Denver know they do not have to?