Did the lender have some idea of what was up, choosing to sell the loan rather than try to cure/foreclose? 

The public has no way of knowing this is occurring until later notices document and prove it.b) Once thats up  the borrower sends a Notice of Default and Intent to Accelerate giving 20 days for the borrower to pay the entire amount owed (cure the default).

Usually the side effects are worse than the actual thing they are trying to cure.  

Hi Dave in Northern, NJ-I am sorry to hear you have a single family rental facing foreclosure.You have it in an LLC and wonder what your options may be to delay foreclosure.Lenders do not want to take properties back and have a nonperforming loan.The best time to work with your lender is as soon as possible but certainly before the sheriff's sale.After the sheriff's sale, there is a redemption period where you can still sell it and the length of time varies from state to state and may depend on if it is vacant (avoid that for a variety of reasons), if tenants have a lease and have rights, or if someone is occupying the property.Working with the lender may not be easy but do not give up.Also, reach out to investors, who buy properties in foreclosure or pre-foreclosure, and see if they would be interested in curing the default and buying the property.To Your Success!

Quote from @Michael Smythe: @Marcos De la CruzWe manage almost 100 S8 leases.S8 is NOT the cure for tenant nonpayment issues!

Most of the time I have to pay for water and sewage.

There is nothing that could happen at your rental that wouldn’t be your fault for not preventing, curing, fixing.

In the end a mortgage company that has a property in default has one way to cure the issue "foreclose" I have seen properties turn into "Zombie" properties for 2-3 years.

Our sewage line has also backed up into the basement, several times.  

See the chart from Fair Isaac Company (FICO) below: FICO Score Pct of Population Default Probability 800 or more 13.00% 1.00% 750-799 27.00% 1.00% 700-749 18.00% 4.40% 650-699 15.00% 8.90% 600-649 12.00% 15.80% 550-599 8.00% 22.50% 500-549 5.00% 28.40% Less than 499 2.00% 41.00% Source: Fair Isaac CompanyAccording to this chart, investors should use corresponding vacancy+tenant-nonperformance factors of approximately 5% for Class A rentals, 10% for Class B and 20% for Class C.To address Class C payment challenges, many industry "experts" are now selling programs to newbie investors about how Section 8 tenants are the cure.