If I didn't want to go that route, I could work on building up enough savings to get started, but then I'm looking at postponing this "education" for probably a year at least, & possibly losing his interest in mentoring me.

With a new 180 day window you can postpone the sale of the old property to get a little more appreciation or capture top dollar.  

They postponed the auction date for another month and we were able to close 10 days later.

If you are able to postpone your purchase to around Feb next year, we could work out something.

So meaning if there are any damages, we would just have to postpone the close until the time that we get it in the condition we saw it, right?

Even after communicating the observed neglect she constantly postponed the inevitable

I would do the tenant a favor by postponing the new lease date to be Nov 1st.

If we don't get any more by tomorrow morning, we'll probably just postpone and reschedule in a few weeks.

Postponement of foreclosure sale is not an option in HI unless there is an issue with the foreclosure process itself.

From my experience, it is pretty easy to get the bank to postpone the auction sale.