@Josiah Cooper thanks man

These kids are suseptable to some pressure. play good cop bad cop and tell them if they cooperate there won't be any problems.

Most 1031 cooperation clauses anyway specify that cooperation with the 1031 won't require extra time or money from the other party. 

If you attempt a hard stance and it backfires, the tenant may not be cooperative this time and in the future as well.That said, do you have any reason to believe that the tenant may not be a good tenant?

That depends on what state, county and city the property is in, how much money you have to work with, local foreclosure laws, is there a right of redemption, is the owner cooperative, is the house vacant, does the foreclosing attorney provide a title report, etc, etc.I have no idea where you are located so can't answer any of those questions.

There is no more equity to work with on the cost of the second remediation though (much less sheetrocking it again, etc. )It has been mentioned that a bank would likely be cooperative on a short sale, but I hear nothing but bad things about short sales and that its not for wholesalers.

If they skipped out owing me $3K, something tells me they won't be cooperative with providing this.  

However what is not in dispute is that at some point Section 8 will stop paying so my question to all and sundry is what are you going to do if the family isn't as cooperative as the one Dave was dealing with.We had great difficulty getting through to anybody at Section 8 who could give us the definitive answer on what was supposed to happen and drew a blank when we tried searching online for the policy on deceased tenants.I actually recounted the experience incorrectly.

I get wanting a covered pool, but it sounds like the science won't cooperate.

title searches are done in the deed records of the county where the property is located, or online through the Georgia Superior Court Clerk's Cooperative Authority.