I was unable to overturn the low appraiser's appraisal.

That alone would prevent you from getting title insurance.Also, in most places in California, owners can redeem the property up until the end of day before the auction occurs.Also, in California, there is a one-year statute of limitations for an owner to bring an action to overturn a tax sale.

@Alan DolenskyI'm new like you and have been instructed to use caution and use the inspector and GC for the first flip to get a better understanding of what to look for and to make sure that all stones have been overturned.

Went into the branch, they look up my loan number, and it had been "overturned", so they won't honor what they approved me for after a 30 day process of submitting every doc they requested.

Unless South Lake Tahoe's ordinance requiring a minimum 30 day rental contract is overturned in court, that may be the way we HAVE to go. 

We do not overturn a sale and refund the purchase price because a bidder didn't know what they were bidding on, nor because they didn't understand the legal description.Do not count on buying a house at the foreclosure auction.

Most of the media is saying property owners lost bigtime in that the moratorium wasn't immediately overturned (Associated Press, NPR, Reuters, etc).

Political discussion is prohibited in the forums and while I realize it is difficult to discuss policies that are enacted/enforced/overturned by politicians, you are limited to discussing the policies themselves and not the worth/worthlessness of those involved in crafting/overturning the policies.

If it doesn’t get overturned, I would take the housing authority to court.   

A DIL in this situation could be deemed as unjust enrichment and overturned if an attorney gets involved or if there are any other junior interests.