One of the secrets about foreclosures is that being first rarely gets you the deal, instead building trust over time, and being there when they finally give up is what works (for example touching base after the judge give the bank a motion for relief from stay on their bankruptcy that has been postponing the foreclosure sale for 6 months - at which point no one else is even still tracking).Finally, the companies that do offer these usually don't bother with filters because there just aren't enough leads to make filtering useful in most geographies, and getting that data costs more money.

Unfortunately, my walkthroughs were postponed until Sunday do to in climate weather and scheduling conflicts.  

The lady thought foreclosure had been postponed, but it had actually, gone through.

Of course, the creation of many of these new households are being postponed, for lack of a better word, by the bleak economy and labor market.

Once the loan is current, the sale date will be postponed.

More probably something far more prosaic happened such as a postponement of the sale.

After lunch I learned another had a court postponement, and tonight a third deal is miraculously moving up and in a rush to close in the next few days.

That will stop/postpone the tax sale but doesn't gain ownership.The initial situation described seems to be one that could be negotiated.

Chris, this was actually a different auction that has gotten postponed.

But unlike REOs, foreclosure sales are often postponed or cancelled.