You, as a third party (not seller or buyer) wouldn't generally collect 'acquisition fees'.

I'm late to the party on this thread, but I figure now is better than never.

Few will provide you sufficient info to market to the parties involved.Drive down to the courthouse.

I work as a short sale listing agent, and as that third party negotiator.

I am assuming each party has adequate experience in each of their roles.

You should also consider third party plan review as well as that can save you months of carry as DCRA can be really difficult and time consuming as I am sure you already know if you work in the region.The most important thing you can do is to do you own due diligence on your contractor/builder.

The funny part is when I first started talking to him he said he had no idea what the property was worth .So on to the next one

Regulators look for predatory practices from scrupulous people and companies where they offer to review and some type of fee is paid to the party.

Also the foreclosing party has so many days to seek a possible deficiency judgment against the party being foreclosed after the sale.

I'm willing to lose money for her benefit but I have a hard time swallowing another 5k that will just go to undeserving parties so I'm curious legality wise if there is a way around it