Success Fee Basis (compensation)Some landlords may be willing to postpone the first month's rent and other associated costs if you offer them more money on what's called a success fee basis.

blighted is blighted.. they just got snookered into buying these things realize they are not sustainable or viable and let them go.. just postponed the inevitable.. other wise why are the locals not buying this stuff to protect their turf  their city their neighborhoods.. ???

Who shows up, why they show up, how they bid, how to qualify for a bid, why over half the sales get postponed or cancelled, etc..

I'm in Oregon so the tax bill will be too much to stomach.Any other options for me to defer/postpone the tax hit?

If you do a 1031 exchange, you postpone depreciation recapture, too - which is a great tax benefit and a good reason to try to maximize depreciation early.7.

The borrower can still sell the house and you can use bank financing if you can do everything before the sale or if the mortgage company is willing to postpone the sale so you can close.Once the sale has happened, in most states the bank takes ownership and then you have to buy from the bank and it is called REO.

Flights are currently postponed/anticipated to start January 2019 due to the airlines offering more flights out of Paine field than they were originally approved for by the FAA.

Or at least insert a clause in the contract giving you the right to postpone closing for two weeks if lender takes longer than expected. 

Have the home owner contact the bank and ask how much to reinstate and if they will postpone the sale so you can close.

In addition, the agent and homeowner have no third party to appeal to to postpone a foreclosure when a short sale has been approved.