My suggestion would be to select someone with the most forum posts or most reviews.

Alternatively, consider bridge loans, HELOCs, or post-purchase refinancing to preserve liquidity.

I've bought hundreds of properties at Tax Sale, but only Tax Deed Sales, and have posted on the subject many times on BP.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Will post back how long it takes and the “compared to what” responses as it happens. 

@William Fishergreat question thanks for posting, I was just looking around for posts that were related to this.

@Jennifer Turner I heard and appreciated your empathy in reading this in your post: "We know they're hard working and would like to continue working with them rather than move toward foreclosure, but we know they're in over their heads if we continue under the current terms of the mortgage and don't want to set them up for failure."  

One question that you may not want to post here for legal reasons, is how much are you paying your PMC?

@Julia Lyrberg First I want to thank you for taking the time out of your day to reply to my post, it means a lot!

I agree with everything in this post and if it was a month ago I may have agreed with everything in this post (and I gave it an up vote).