Mark C - I'd be happy to get together and discuss.James and Tom - took your advise and posted in Marketplace to look for local Realtor.Realtyrac is yielding a lot of good info, too.  

Depending on the value of the property you will need to show up with $x,000 in certified funds to register to bid and if you are the high bidder you will need to increase your deposit to y% (typically 10%) of the high bid within a couple of business days. 30 days settlement is standard, so financing is possible.The difference in risk level between private auctions and foreclosures is huge.

Shorter term loans are in the market place.  

While most Net Zero buildings are energy efficient, perhaps even highly so in comparison to minimum building code requirements, there is nothing requiring them to anywhere new the efficiency level of a Passivhaus   .... this is why you will see odd things like warehouses with large rooftop solar installations being able to claim Net Zero.On the other hand, Passivhaus sets three metrics which a building must meet to be certified as Passivhaus compliant:  The building must have a heating and cooling demand of not more than 15 kWh/m2 (4,755 BTU/sq ft; 5.017 MJ/sq ft) per year  and a peak heat load of 10 W/m2.Total primary energy consumption (energy for heating, hot water and electricity) must not be more than 120 kWh/m2 (38,040 BTU/sq ft; 40.13 MJ/sq ft) per yearThe building must not leak more air than 0.6 times the house volume per hour (n50 ≤ 0.6 / hour) at 50 Pa (0.0073 psi) as tested by a blower door.Ironically, the research and pilot projects which fuelled what eventually became the Passivhaus standard was carried out in Saskatchewan as a National Research Council (NRC) project in the 1970s (the house is still in use today) and a similar project (Minnesota?)

If that's the case you could qualify for a 30 yr conventional loan if the home is on a engineered certified foundation system.

@Bill Gulley  Engelo is not a Guru he is just a hard working young man who is building a turn key business and PM business.. along with he just launched a real Estate brokerage in Ohio called list and sell which is a discount brokerage for high achieving agents in that market place..  

If we assume that the maturity of most notes in the marketplace are 30 years and perhaps these loans are aged somewhat, generally we would expect to see a fund that targets a 5 year horizon or more.  

Good investing that yields above average returns for the given marketplace, be it real estate or picking good stocks, requires a crap ton of research, hustle, and due diligence.

The association management will need to start the application process with FHA, go through the inspections and pass to get certified again. 

While I am creating awareness in the marketplace and earning the trust of these individuals through a relentless campaing of obtaining as much face to face time with them as possible, I am busily working to raise my competence through educating myself, doing small deals, and forming area-specific alliances.Is there anyone here who has gone through a similar exercise?