As of Feb-05-2016, the New York Times is reporting: Wages Rise as Unemployment falls below 5%.Analysts said that the slowdown might push the Federal Reserve to postpone another interest rate increase when it meets next month, but signs of a tighter labor market suggested that policy makers would be looking closely at incoming data.

probably 90% of the deals scheduled to go to sale are postponed or canceledHope this helps!

(being it is in pre-foreclosure) the POSTPONED est. opening bid for it is at $67,500.My question is of course I would like to call my friend and ask about his house (which I will probably still do) and maybe hash it out with him on a deal but that would kinda of be awkward being in pre-foreclosure phase and me asking him to buy his house right or not?

That would mean that they have postponed taking care of certain expenses that should have been addressed.

- The need to postpone your capital investment/profit capture until you sell the property (or the lending enviroment improves).

I had to postpone a family vacation because they kept dragging the closing out due only to their internal operations and nonchalance toward established deadlines and closing schedules.  

As @Michael Barbari said or implied, postpone the rehab or raise rents after rehab.

For foreclosures were better in AZ, CA, NV, OR and WA, for 2 reasons: 1) they aren't timely in a bunch of counties, and while we buy a lot of data, we abstract foreclosure notices in those counties because we haven't found any sources we can buy timely enough data from, which our auction investors rely on, and 2) we track the trustee sale auctions (postponements, cancellations, sales), which none of those companies, or Rebo do.I don't think any of the big 3 have vacancy, we do.

Maybe a legal entity you owe money to can take that away if you can't satisfy a lien, but with good planning and smart efforts, you can postpone such a loss for a long time.

I had a short sale pending with Shellpoint and they wouldn't postpone the auction, it was held and no one bid.