Maybe you can disconnect the emotion, but being against live bidders in real time environment makes this harder than submitting an offer on an open market deal, or through a wholesaler.  

Depending on how bad is the foundation state (how many inches you have to correct), is very possible the sewer line will disconnect/break in the horizontal portions.

in our place where children are present, all with people with disconnected phones and apparently illegitimate credit card numbers (for one of the two I was actually able to track down)—how is it that we have none of these problems with Airbnb guests? 

Neither number on their homepage is working/disconnected.

SFRs and small multifamily are now completely disconnected from cash flow.

Lenders and appraisers are intentionally disconnected to prevent fraud.

Speaking from (extensive) experience.To make things worse, there is almost unavoidable disconnect between bookkeepers and accountants - unless they have a business relationship and worked out their differences one-on-one. 

Someone was asking on a local board for someone to disconnect their gas stove!

Being more “disconnected” (at least geographically and knowing the ins and outs locally) from the properties really adds a different spin to it. 

I'm struggling to resist the urge to just disconnect their machines and let them come at me for the breach of contract damages which would only be like $3-$4k.