That way they could have money to move out to another place.

If you have a building background, I would work with an architect and build some unique places that are stick built to hold the equity value better.

My attorney ask if I wanted to go ahead and place the notice in the newspaper and he would file the necessary paperwork as far as getting a court date. 

I see it promoted by gurus that they'll pay 110%+ of FMV if they get the financing in place and no balloon.

. :)  we just got some of those hot chicken places out here in Orygun

I took that money and bought two other places. 

Meetups - Our events page is a great place to start, some areas of the country are far more active about posting their meetups than others, if you're not finding anything here meetup.com is a great place to look as well.

Their solution was for me to take over ownership of not one but five homes from Jeff's portfolio, all of which I had sold him and subsequently leased.Despite my being patently unfinanceable, the bank president placed a bet on me because I knew the homes, I knew the tenants, I knew what I was doing, and I was rabidly hungry.

There is a time and place for highly levered hard money debt but its expensive.

If you have the right people in place it can still be done.