buy them a dehumidifier & make sure the bathroom is vented to the outside.

In order for the court to do such things a motion must be filed by either side and the court must first stay or postpone the sale and then the court must set aside time to deal with the motion.  

The only way to succeed is to market to people who have either had their BK case dismissed by the court (usually for failure to file documents timely) or if a lender files a Motion For Relief From Stay (because plan payments are not being made) AND the court grants that motion. 

After going thru the motions when starting out I actually began to get calls from desperate homeowners who wanted to actually GIVE me their houses!

There was a large payoff coming the defendant's way that afaik they never received because the 3rd party investor put in an emergency motion to stop the distribution.

A new roof will be 5-10k in the city, a new oven is $500, a new boiler is $4000...your maintenance budget is blown if you're basing it off of that.You aren't budgeting for vacancies (pay yourself to deal with loss of income and finding/vetting new tenants)You aren't budgeting the utility bills, and you likely pay for at least waterYou aren't budgeting for city costs like license renewalsYou aren't budgeting for your time, potentially, by even having a line item for "management" where you can pay yourself some money for your time.So, if your goal is the highest rate of return, go through the motion of finding out what that is and report back to us.

And, MassSave mentioned that there are models that suck in the ambient air and dehumidify, are these worthwhile?

They would only do that IF the borrower filed a chapter 13, filed a motion to lien strip a junior lien, was successful in that motion, and completed the chapter 13 and got their discharge and THEN notified the lender to reconvey the title back to them.

I do calculate the cap rate when considering a purchase, because it's part of going through the motions, but I don't pay much attention to it when deciding whether to do a deal or not. 

Real estate Investment has always been a goal of mine, and with discovering Bigger Pockets, it has really started to motivate me to get things in motion.