You say you cannot afford the rehab costs or a loan but do you have any money you can use to at least get started with the repairs?

It has a finished entertaining area with a kitchenette and a bathroom.  

As many as you can afford.

Secondly, entertain his mortgage person.

By making it an affordable Meetup group (without Guru’s involved), It could potentially gain huge popularity.

Further, auction buyers as a real property owner have a statutory right of notice to a senior's foreclosure, which starts the clock of redemption that must be afforded or that owner can contest the foreclosure all together.  

As a hands on individual who lives at the outer edge of a major metropolitan area, I'm curious if investors from the "big city" who are looking for more affordable markets would find benefit in the assistance of a fellow investor native to the area (to help vet properties and/or act as a property manager).  

Now mostly newer homes in a much more affordable price range than what you can get closer to the Bay Area.  

I have found the podcast very useful and entertaining.

No one is in business for entertainment or the simple exercise of talking to potential sellers.