What happened to the plan to ferry your Aztec out from the states?
That is the aeroplane you need to cut yor IFR teeth on...not least because you already own it. Stable, long ranged, can be outfitted (if not already) with pneumatic de ice boots/hot props/heated windscreen plate, roomy, comfortable, only gives away about 10-15kts to a Bo, climbs well...system redundancy..and did I mention you already own it
In the current market, and this is something that is not going to change in the medium term, aeroplanes in this category are VERY difficult things to sell in a reasonable time frame without taking a financial hosing. They are not like exotic cars that find a ready market...it's not the 1970s when the used aircraft market was quite lively and aeroplanes sold reasonably quickly and used prices were actually appreciating slightly for well maintained aircraft.
There are VASTLY more used aircraft on the market than buyers...people who are buying in this class of aeroplane are happily plonking down $500k on new Cirrus aircraft or new Cessnas...the other part of the market that is booming is new SAA types and home builts like your Harmon Rocket and the RVs.
The industry seems to have disowned the many 1000s of classic aircraft in a rush of indecent haste to drool over G1000 instrument panels which, lets face it, are the ONLY technological advance over a V35 that the Cirrus or new Cessna have. Same engine,prop and in the case of the Cessnas the same airframe technology but the G1000 is got everybody dribbling...and, in my view, putting people into conditions that exceed their ability. It's the 21st century equivalent of the 1960s/70s marketting from Piper, Cessna et al that convinced so many people that flying an aeroplane was no different to driving a car...sold
lots of aeroplanes and killed lots of people....and is the reason why there are so many aircraft like that 76 V35b above that even after 30 years have only a few thousand hrs on the airframe and are ripe for upgrades with modern technology avionics that make them
at LEAST as good as any new aeroplane for a fraction of the capital cost.