FHA loan foreclosure will appear on Hudhomestore.com is the loan is transferred to FHA from the lender and you will have no opportunity to purchase before it is listed. 

Wholesalers can't typically sell to retail buyers unless the retail buyer is paying cash, using non-traditional sources of funding or will be purchasing under some form of creative financing or creative transfer of title.

Where do daily interest, escrow reserves, title charges, appraisals, home inspections, transfer taxes fall??

Most sales are conducted this way and keys transfer at settlement (closing).Fannie Mae's addendum, however, specifies that possession will not occur until funding.

Sometibh else you could do is look up the address with the county assessor and look at the date of deed transfer but that is going to take you several days. 

I am also an extremely busy person, and I really don't want to have to coordinate going to see a property with someone else, so the license would give me access to MLS listed properties anyway.

My thought was these folks get transferred need a place to buy or rent while they are there until getting transferred to cooler climates.  

I had a lawyer review a tenant buyout contract (needed to buy one tenant out so I could occupy) and during that discussion, the lawyer suggested that I sign an Assignment of Lease with the current lessor - making the lease transfer bulletproof in the event of eviction proceedings.

We transfer a set amount for vacancy, repair, and capex into an account each month.  

You want to be sure your funds are transferred to your new SDIRA form your current IRA/retirement plan custodian in time for an earnest money deposit to be sent out, as you cannot user personal funds for this.