I am able to bring deals to the table and am happy managing some of the grunt work on my own.

How I spoke all those years ago (with the exception of the French. 

My investor clients have no interest - nor do I - in the short-term business and the people I know who do it and claim to be hitting it big actually have left money on the table by not going longer term. 

When it’s assignable the sellers tend to fear they are making a bad deal and leaving money on the table.

It would definitely help in my situation, but I would have to figure out exactly what I would bring to the table.

This is commencement of the foreclosure process- use an amortization table to this point, minus one year or more, to determine approx loan balance (UPB) - assume payments have not been made on the 1st since then- use the interest rate on the note and apply to the UPB til today's date to determine interest arrears owing - assume property taxes haven't been paid by borrower and advanced by lender since default, this gets added to balance- add in approx insurance coverage that the lender may have advanced (Forced Place Insurance), to this balance- legal fees are the big unknown (and not sure they are recoverable in HI), but if there are a lot of filings then can assume fairly hefty amount, say $10K+. 

She got back to me the next day and said the bank had 10 offers on the table.

Also be prepared for there to be several offers on the table, when I purchased my duplex in that neighborhood I got it by finding an off market-deal.

I think we probably paid out $1000 in various repair of galvanized pipe.There was also a plumbing situation outside with old clay pipes underground that we couldn't have known about, but that ended up costing us $5,500 to jackhammer up the back porch, replace the line and put in new concrete.Water in the basement, we paid someone for a foundation drain to the tune of $2500, and then we put in 2 french drains ourselves, which came to about $1000. 

I can say that I notice experienced sponsors and investors seem to fret much less when the developers/partners coming to table have strong track record of success in the asset class and geography