Because starting August 1, 2015 (postponed to October 3, but many lenders are still rolling it out 8/1) we now have even more regulation to navigate. 

Be aware though, loans get postponed for stupid reasons multiple times.

However it takes 60-90 days for a deed to be recorded and show up in Philly so if there is a court date scheduled your mother may was to contact the city and let them know it's sold so they postpone the court date.

He purchased it in Dec. 2016 but the deed wasn't recorded until about 30 days later.The underwriter wants us to rewrite the contract with a new date, get a second appraisal at my clients (seller) expense, and postpone the closing. 

It's just that you can postponing your cash flow for few months.

So you basically eliminate underwater properties until you know the starting bid on those; properties with equity are worth the research effort in most cases even if they are postponed; very unlikely that the property loses equity unless a disaster occurred there. 

You can file to try and get the foreclosure postponed.

Postpone it till he's out

All a program like this will succeed in doing is to postpone evictions not end them.

@Hans Thurau, An installment sale can postpone a recognition of gain and the associated tax bill but not eliminate it.