For obvious reasons, after the site was acquired and preliminary work was performed, the project was "postponed". 

I spoke with my attorney and we decided to postpone the closing until they clean this mess up.

Are you just postponing a problem and then your renter will have to pay two months rent next month.

You would have just postponed paying it until your final property.If you can successfully do one flip per month, you won't have to worry about the capital gains until April 15th of the following year.  

We get a list of what is on the calendar on the Thursday before each auction and usually 50-75% of the properties listed on Thursday end up getting postponed or cancelled by Tuesday, so doing a lot of due diligence ends up wasting time. 

You'll find that, on average, out of every property scheduled for auction 2/3 get cancelled or postponed, and from the 1/3 left over, 2/3 of those go back to the bank with 1/3 going to a 3rd party bidder.  

Sheriff sale was originally scheduled for May, but had been postponed to the end of July, and it is listed for a short sale.  

Obviously running title searches on multiple properties prior to auction is uneconomical due to the number of auctions postponed and cancelled.In Miami Dade you can access A LOT of information online through public records. 

I've been looking for roofers are over the place but they keep postponing the meetings. 

I know a homeowner whom would like to do a short sale with me but unfortunately she has an auction date set on May 17, 2019...is it possible to cancel/postpone the auction date?