If the owner is behind by 30k on the payments you can offer 30k + a certain amount of money to ease the owner's suffering.

in retrospect spring would have been a better time to re-side haha... but hey suffer today, profit tomorrow.

I've reached out to many of the banks and have found half of them are out of the game at present for either being at their limit for CRE lending or having suffered oil-related losses which they are still in the process of working out.

If you don't have a sure fire way to get out of the situation like that while making money, I would say that he should have to suffer those consequences rather than you. 

There is a fire while I am sleeping, I suffer burns (or die) because there was no smoke detector to wake me.

Throughout your investing career, you will suffer setbacks and losses.

It sucks, but it's a waiting game, meanwhile your investments suffer :-(I agree with @Andrew Johnson, your best option is to get the local government involved.   

What he learns here is that every time the rent is late he will get an eviction notice, the process won't stop until he's out or the rent is paid, and he will suffer a walk through and pay for the associated attorney fees.

If you spend all day customizing your CRM, your actual business operations will suffer!

I sincerely doubt you don't have stories of real privation in your own family, people who suffered to make sure you had enough to feel entitled to these phantom needs you've mentioned here.