If you can stretch the due date out for a short time, talk with @Ann Bellamy.  

I'd guess that the county is really stretching their authority by requiring the payment of the attorney fees in order to redeem.I'm pretty sure the redeeming party is liable for the attorney fees and costs but is not obligated to pay them in order to redeem.  

I wasn't using any retirement savings for the purchase so that was an easy one.I stretched myself pretty thin putting 20% down but still had some cash to do the repairs that were necessary.

Numbers are a bit of a stretch there, but possibly doable.

. =)   I may have paid $75, but $85 would have been a stretch.

The city and state authorities are not helping by stretching out the investigation this long.

Use the repairs needed to your advantage, no inspections or appraisals needed, tax benefits in stretching the loan out over time, offer a balloon payment if he doesn't want to wait a long time for his money, etc etc etc.

It's a bit of a stretch to call anything with a Scottsdale address "rough".

If you'd be stretching it to make a down payment and keep up on monthly minimums, do yourself a favor and knock out that debt first. 

I don't find these ideas to be "bad" by any stretch of the imagination.Leverage cuts both ways... it can build wealth and cash flow, it can destroy it as well.