I need advice for Alberta. I am executor of my mother’s

I need advice for Alberta. I am executor of my mother’s estate. I want to settle matters but it’s become complicated. Mom passed over two and a half years ago. It took me a year to clean out house and sort through it all. Then another eight months to do renovations. Then I moved into the house last December when I decided to keep house instead of sell. In order to pay off my brother who is the other beneficiary, I then put up my house for sale which just sold a month ago. I was told by a lawyer I just have to deduct the costs of keeping the house maintained, the renovations etc and deduct from the value. Here lies the problem. When I had it assessed pre Reno it was valued at 303,000. Now it’s probably worth 360-380. But the expenses of keeping house maintained, utilities, taxes, renos etc come out to about 120,000. So it’s not fair that I deduct this amount from estate as I feel it was a bad decision on my part and also because I decided to keep house instead of sell. I also lost a lot of money paying for costs of my own house ( utilities, etc ) until it sold. I’m having a hard time figuring out what and how much I should deduct and give my brother a fair amount. I could pay him half what the pre renovation value was minus costs of house until I moved in and absorb the loss from renos on my own. If I were to pay him based on today’s value minus costs and renos it would be much less. I’m stuck. What should I deduct and what’s fair? Thank you

Lawyer's Assistant: Have you talked to a Alberta/Nevada lawyer about this?

Edmonton, Alberta Canada.

Lawyer's Assistant: What steps have you taken so far?

It’s gone through probate. Taxes have been paid. I just have to get CRA clearance and then transfer title to my name. I spoke with my real estate lawyer about this when I sold my own house and he suggested I deduct costs from today’s value but I’m not clear on what to deduct or how much or what is my expense alone and not the estates.

Lawyer's Assistant: Anything else you want the lawyer to know before I connect you?

I am so confused. Bank person assisting with estate said because I chose to keep house I should pay for costs out of my own pocket because she believes it was my choice to renovate and hold onto house for so long. Lawyer says it’s just a matter of deducting costs until now against value to figure out what should be paid out. But I am in the middle because I lost the estate a lot of money by doing this. The other factor in all this is that a joint account with rights of survivorship was passed only to me so my brother did not get this. So I also feel a lot of guilt. But it was my moms wishes and I unfortunately feel like I made a bad situation worse with the house.