Auctions are for experience cash buyers. 

are you referring to a motivate seller that would be interested in entering into a lease option with a tenant buyer?

The buyers were cash though and we had a good idea of interior condition from looking thru the windows. 

This gives out of state/remote buyers a much better idea on what they're looking at and eliminates the need to set up pointless walk-throughs with folks who aren't serious. 

So I have a deal where a lady has put a buyer under contract and she says she common law married to the decease guy.

I built / or should say I refurbed studs out a 4 bd then built a new 4 bed behind it.. last year and that sold for 1.250  buyer is renting it by the room to collage students.. that's quite popular there as well. not as profitable of course as the air bnb..  

You work for buyers instead of the sellers. 

As one of the larger multi-family lenders in the city, a great deal of my clients are 2-4unit buyers/owners....many of them being primary residence purchases taking the "house-hacking" angle. 

A tip for the homewoner....the last thing a person in foreclosure needs is for some wannabe wholesaler to tie up their property “hoping” to flip the contract....the deal falls apart then the homeowner doesn’t have time to sell it to a real buyer.

-Flippers, and buy and hold investors, who are looking for properties and are serious buyers.