I don't think it's a good time to be postponing anything, although we want to be smart/safe about it.

This broker friend contacted bank to postpone auction and accept short sale.

I've spent my quarantine days researching my county and their process, looking at properties, and even planned on attending an auction before the coronavirus caused my county to postpone everything. 

I believe millenials *in general* are less wealthy for the following reasons: they are younger, so they haven't had time to accumulate wealth; they are coddled and pampered since they started out as the wealthiest generation in the history of this country, and thus are less likely to be needy in the first place which is a huge incentive to income generation; they value things other than money (time, the environment, experiences, etc) and are less likely to make the tradeoffs that sometimes make you choose; they grew up in an "instant" society and have no attention spans whatsoever and less inclination to postpone gratification. 

The same can be said for my spouse who may demand more of our earnings to maintain an accustomed lifestyle.I make several times what David makes(W2) but with my expenses (family and location) I'm willing to bet he has more disposable $ and thus, more to invest.IF it were up to me (and my time machine worked) I would have brought the spousal unit on board years ago and likely postponed the kiddos.

You can try and work directly with the lender to see if they will postpone it but there isn't much benefit for them to do so.

Its implementation was just postponed .  

My PM would require the deposit to be paid, first month, proof of utilities in their name etc prior to move inSo I would postpone the move-in date until the deposit is paid - it sounds like they have a couple days to get their requirements done or the unit goes back to the market.

The first is to postpone your dream of real estate and stay in the rate race longer and hope your fortunes turn (higher income, housing market collapse, etc).

Everyone else will just postpone their plans until the economy improves.