She won the property at sheriff's sale.She is trying to close and the other title company tells her the foreclosure process is still ongoing.

I did a 7.5% down conventional loan. 

Boston and the immediate surrounds are still the employment capital of the region and people are enduring longer and longer commutes for the opportunity to work in the colleges, hospitals, pharma companies and financial district of Boston / Cambridge.I wonder if there's a practical limit. 

I’m sure you can have a loan denial issued if you state that you do not have enough funds in place to make this happen, which will allow you to exit your contract because of not being able to meet the financing approval period.

You can likely get a loan with either 3.5%or 5% down payment.

Please recommend any local company.

In order to minimize the amount of time you'll spend hands on managing, I suggest finding a good cleaning crew and an on-call handy man or maintenance company.

This deal was financing using a hard money loan.

I assume you have been using your VA loan? 

Then below that, in the 8-25 range, will be your local property management companies.