Shouldn't he have to give us some sort of notice that he feels the lawn is too long and a deadline to have it done prior to him doing it??

In either case, the owner will be squatting after the auction.There's some deadline before the auction, maybe just a day or two, maybe a week, when the auction can still be stopped.

If you're financially liable for any delays, make the contractor responsible for past deadlines regardless of all factors.

Tenant leaves belongings in unit (do everything you can to ascertain whether they are comming back for property [if they still have time before the deadline], and document in detail all you do [in case they say you got rid of their family heirloom thingamabob]), any expense you incur to deal with those left behind belongings very well may be justification for charging against the security deposit.Also, just a note - many landlords in OH do not know this, but OH law requires landlords to mail to the former tenant a written accounting of how the security deposit was spent (i.e., what % refunded and what was spent for what).

I will go ahead and submit a back up offer to the LA anyway, in case lender denies 1st offer price or they miss the dead line, or else will come up.

Here's a tip tho, in case you haven't been through this: find out your housing authority's process for requesting a rent increase, deadlines, etc.

If we did not have a time deadline I would have thought it was very humerous.

I have HUD property under contract that I want to wholesale but has a deadline in a week to close.

Way to labor intensive for the banks, they just pay them off prior to the deadline...

In that case, we had a very short closing deadline and the financing contingency was still in effect.