No repairs need to be made, so no need for a rehab investor to intervene and bring the property to livable conditions.

The lawyer said I would have been stuck but the auction site intervened and I got 100% back without taking official possession!

Do we really want the government intervening in the market and favoring some players over others?

As a compromise, I volunteered to intervene as the middleman.

Again I am not looking to Government Bash I am just wondering what the Forum is thinking about the Federal Government's attempts to intervene in Housing / Mortgage / investments.

Outside the city limits the tenants are better, the city doesn't intervene, the property values are higher and so are the rents, and there's more buyers, but not better projected cash flow or overall ROI. 

A few hours later the couple showed up at our door and thanked us for intervening before things got too out of hand.

Your landlord is aware of this and has not intervened.

I have got quite a few people interested and wanting to schedule viewings and now the owner wants to sit in and intervene and be a part of the selling process and changing the amount he wants (not by much).

They then would have tried to subrogate the master insurance policy to pay for damages, or the board could have intervened and paid for the bills out of pocket.