When you contact a lender and convince them that you can wire the funds within a week, they sometimes postpone the sale.

I see a lot of properties listed but they are not approved for bidding and many are postponed.

Next option is to postpone the closing until after the "permitted and inspected" repairs are made to the property.  3rd renegotiate the purchase price of the property to reflect the damage to the property.  4th create a contract between you and the seller where you take possession of the property and the original owner pays for the cost of repair, this is usually through proceeds from the insurance claim.  

as an agent you can contact the bank with the owners permission and many times you can get the sale postponed to get time to market and close the deal.. 

It's akin to postponing the tax bill, giving you more immediate capital to work with.Partial Reduction of Capital Gains Tax: If you keep your investment in the Opportunity Zone for at least five years, you become eligible for a 10% reduction in the deferred capital gains tax.

A foreclosure can be postponed, again and again.

It is easy to postpone these things and next thing you know, you're into the next months rent.

Esther and anyone else who was planning on showing up it is looking pathetically small so I think it will have to be postponed.  

Just not sure whether or not I need to be thinking about postponing jumping into real estate investing if I don’t have enough in reserves.Dan

In my experience, those who tend to like the DSTs, and this type of solution, tend to be those who are 75 or older without a spouse or significant heirs and who are just looking to postpone the taxes beyond their likely life expectancy (recognizing, however, that this is an ever increasing target in some instances).One defect here is that you are totally out of control.