I will be managing them and intimately involved in every part of the process until we don't have to. 

I feel horrible for the guy in Charlton ( I don't know him) but it must be awful to take such a huge loss in time and money, just because no one told him at the outset that he needed to talk to someone at the building department. 

My goal at short-term is buy a duplex or something like that in Miami, just because is the easiest place where I have access, and rent it for Cash Flow and Equity in time; for long term I hope I'll have several properties for rent, create my own property management company and diversify a littler.I get ti this incredible page thanks to Google and the blog that @BrandonTurner had.

But I think too much time has passed for you to contact the attorney; you want to do that as close as possible in time to the actual foreclosure auction.FNMA will have the property on homepath.com with "coming soon" once they are handing it to an agent.

In times past, a family's home was the hub of their lives.

Factor in time, attorney's fees, possible damage to the propertyWhat is the cost of finding a new tenant?

I'm not interested in timing the market, but interested in some good deals for a cash flow, buy & hold investment. 

Perhaps there just isn't really a good solution at this point in time.

I'd think by saying you don't have time for other friends says it not about you, the other thing is that we consider you friendly too, you're not the only friend we can't spend time with.They should adjust in time.:)

Just in time for Halloween an old thread comes back to life like a zom....