The process will obviously cost quite a bit more and Safeguard seems to have washed their hands of it completely. 

Foreign nationals have the same rights to purchase real estate as German citizens, making it easy for Americans to invest in the German market without additional legal barriers.Furthermore, Germany has a transparent legal process for buying property, ensuring clarity and security throughout the transaction.

Inevitably there will be some "friction points" that you'll have to discuss/mediate, but ultimately if they are not willing to adopt a majority/all of your processes, then I think you mutually set up a date that works for them to move. e.g. 60 days, 90 days, etc...

Quote from @Rene Hosman: @Austin Wolff recently went through this process of identifying markets to purchase in and he goes over his thought process in this episode on the Rookie podcast about how he used the MarketFinder here on BiggerPockets to find markets that met his criteria Podcast: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-473MarketFinder: https://www.biggerpockets.com/marketsI specifically only focused on 2 markets (Indianapolis and Fayetteville, AR) before I found a deal using the BP "deal finder."

Hopefully they moved on to a juice processing plant for culls.  

I know PA has a process to go through before you start a foreclosure, but have never seen a requirement to offer a mod.Sure, https://legal-info.lawyers.com/bankruptcy/foreclosures/delay...Under the Dodd-Frank Act, the bank must first wait until the payment is more than 120 days overdue."

It would require being a process. 

There is a huge group of investors in this community that will help guide you throughout the process.

Find out if you can not renew their lease and what the process is. 

Probably they make it up in upcharges on maintenance repairs, or they will keep all your application fees, processing fees, tenant charges,pet fees and charges or make ready or something somewhere.