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.

You should easily be able to get the sale postponed as most lenders do it no issues.

The sale date can be postponed and a new date set.

If you can document tenant damage while they are still living there and you know a pretty accurate cost of the repairs, my suggestion is to bill the tenant now...don't postpone them being held responsible until your have to return a deposit when they move.

Can I roll it into a new profit and postpone paying taxes?

The homeowner's lender had promised to postpone foreclosure by 2 months if he could show them an offer.

Last year (2017), I randomly stumbled across bigger pockets and a lot of the questions that were causing me to postpone investing in real estate were presented to me.

They are just postponing their move in date and not paying the rent as well.

It's been nearly 2 months since his auction was canceled / postponed.

It seems that the notice of trustees sale record gets filed, but auctions dates get postponed often.