I am trying to get a members id from a node that was selected within a member picker.

 var linkedContent = new Node(Int32.Parse("512198"));
 var linkBrand = linkedContent.GetAncestorNodes().FirstOrDefault(x => x.NodeTypeAlias == "Brand");
 var check = linkBrand.HasProperty("brandContacts");
 var currentContacts = linkBrand.GetProperty("brandContacts") ;

currentContacts only returns a Null and check returns false

Any help will be much appreciated