Your income level can also postpone any annual losses.

A 1031 exchange doesn’t make capital gains tax go away; it just postpones it.

You have to know when to walk away from a deal or postpone it.You need to start doing Deal Analyses, even if you plan to invest in Syndicates; you need to understand the deals and their potential Good or Bad.

Many prospects were found and evaluated, only to have the sales postponed, postponed, and finally cancelled.

Or you can ask the 1st to postpone the foreclosure sale until you can obtain financing to pay off the 1st and the negotiated amount to the 2nd. 

Now there are options to post pone this tax, but it would depend on the tax laws when you sell the property. 

There aren't many investors who take the time or have the courage to do it.Yes, if they are interested in your help, you can get them to give you authorization to talk to their lender and you can work a short sale or if enough equity, just get the bank to postpone until you can close.It's a much better option to buy a property from the owner than bidding with everyone else.

It creates a stir with the other bidders but you have to stand your ground usually the crier will need to call headquarters and headquarters calls the bank or servicer.. they will then postpone the sale until they hear back..

For what ever reason they have been postponing the demolition my guess is the owner has requested multiple extensions.

By the time the bank counters the bank may have been postponing the foreclosure.