If incomes don't keep rising, prices will soon hit a ceiling.Second, and related, the Fed is becoming increasingly hawkish -- they have no choice but to increase interest rates this year to fight rising inflation.

You don't want fights between different gangs in your houses.

You are emotionally invested in your first deal and maybe feel bad for the sellers, but it's not your fight.

Even if they have six months left on a lease, you can often tell someone you are terminating their lease and they will leave without a fight.

So our money can be tied up until that hearing just to find out the owner filed a bogus bankruptcy 1 hr before the sale which invalidates it, or they file a motion to fight the validity of the judgement and then we wait another 3 months for the bank to fight that.

Without that proof of funds, there was never really a tender.Bottom line, if the taxpayer misses the deadline and later argues you should have given them longer to redeem, you should fight back by saying they never made a legal tender and your grace period was only a courtesy. 

Without that proof of funds, there was never really a tender.Bottom line, if the taxpayer misses the deadline and later argues you should have given them longer to redeem, you should fight back by saying they never made a legal tender and your grace period was only a courtesy.

Guess is they are only doing this with certain dollar amount properties as the understanding that they may not have the money to fight money nor want to, guessing they are not doing this with $50mm+ and up deals.  

At the end of the day, what you should expect really depends on the other parties and your willingness to potentially fight for it.

Renegotiate to reduce the price of the top and fight these yourself.