Since the auction I was hoping to bid on hasn't even come online yet and my wife is breathing down my neck to get her a house...I made a cash offer on a REO mid week last week.

I eat, sleep, and breathe this stuff and just have a blast getting to know others that are of a similar mindset. 

Your breath of knowledge never ceases to amaze me!

Take a deep breath and give people time to digest that Iliad you composed. 

Hoping that all of the new complexes will breathe more activity for Main Street and surrounding businesses. 

Knowing this lender or mortgagee made a loan to the prior ownersand had a due on sale clause, I took a deep breath and bravely took the check,closing documents and the contract down to the local branch office.

Local banks are easier to deal with but the big ones, BOA/Wells Fargo, I have heard stories of them taking a year or two to approve...I tell people who bid on short sales to bid then forget, if you do get it let it be a pleasant surprise but don't hold your breath!

I need a CPA that sees the situation as a living breathing thing that must be reacted to, in addition to having the ability to proactively attack accounting problems.

If they do accept then they accept but don't hold your breath. 

Before you commit to something a couple of thousand miles away, give the land you love and breath a chance.