In a December poll sponsored by CareerBuilder, 60% of workers older than 60 said they planned to postpone retirement.Goss said it remained unclear whether the uptick in retirements would accelerate or abate in the months ahead.

Or should I try to post-pone the refi even though an appraisal was already done? 

As the P&S date read "7 days post lien approval" we discussed that the post lien date would be last Friday since that's when the buyers said they would accept the banks counter offer.We expected to sign the P&S this week, but now we are being told that it will take another 2 weeks to get the approval letter from the bank so we need to postpone the P&S date.

...This varies, due to postponements, bankruptcy, short sale possibility, etc.Originally posted by K.

Due to these events I have had to postpone and possibly forgo the purchase of my father's rental, and discussions with a contract attorney have indicated that I have no recourse in seeking damages from either the seller or my inspector. 

Then you have to buy something of equal or greater value.You could do the 1031, buy the new property/s and then still do a cash out refi if you wanted to.The 1031 will allow you to postpone capital gains taxes, maybe indefinitely if you keep doing this or hold the property you buy and pass it on to your heirs.

Mine is in the first week of August (after four postponements) but Rona cases as you know are up in Virginia 😏  

If D>10 years, I have to postpone retirement. 

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You never know, the auction could get postponed and buy you a bit more time.