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.

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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.

Whether or not you can get it waived or reduced, you should at least be able to postpone the deadline to pay.And I'd check with an attorney (this isn't legal advice), but I think you can seize the deposit.

Otherwise, if it is a Judicial foreclosure process you can likely go into court before the judge, convince him, get the sale date postponed.

And you should have something in your lease agreement about immediate notifications for any water leaks of any nature and the consequences of tenant not doing it.To summarize: it depends on the roof condition, the insurer and your financial planning, it might make sense and have options in replacing the roof, or might be better to do repairs and postpone replacement.

But as Boomers "retire" and Millennials postpone starting families due to career motivation it has been forecast that there could possibly be a plateau or even a slight decline in Pop Growth.