Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

This will effect your ability to obtain financing for quite a few years but may be worth considering.  

Are there any cost-effective ways to handle this situation legally?

And, capitalism works to lower housing prices when this process is allowed to go into effect. 

They will waste time 24/7 condemning some idiot "wholesaler" who pulls comps from free database and tries to peddle prop for twice its ARV, they will call him a fraudster, criminal, lowlife, Hitler incarnate and etc.

I heard it cost $100 filing fee so I didn't want to waste money if I didn't have to. 

Really about growing a strong portfolio of solid deals.Now that being said, if you are a high income earner, well qualified, and can't find reasonably good deals: (i) you can connect with a well connected real estate agent for off-market deals; (ii) you might do a very narrow cost-effective cold call or letter writing.

If OP has not already tried calling every we buy houses ad in the area, they should also do that. 3 days is very limiting though - no time to waste. 

POHs inherently contribute to elevated expense ratios due to their operational demands, and this effect is magnified when the number of homes is limited, as fixed costs are distributed across fewer units.

Quote from @Frank Barletta: It is more cost-effective and practical to install a large-size TV and get the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Sega Mini consoles.It comes with games preloaded, legal, and each to swap in case something breaks.