Not everyone is going to be sitting at home that exact moment and clicking on their phone to get food delivered.

Regardless of what you do, you'll likely need to bring a quiet title action to get a marketable title.

So just sit and wait?

Tactic to be used when you aren't sure what the issue is and this family member had done this many times, just gone quiet.

At this point, we are looking to remove the home from the two and a half lots it sits on and either lease the lots or sell them.

I don't close until the end of the month (or 3 weeks) and I have funds sitting in an account which are from a stock sale with significant capital gains.

Most contractors I know in this area are sitting on less than $10k in personal assets total (except their tools, haha), so the liklihood of them being able to actually pay instead of "going bankrupt" is questionable.So, from a few years down this road speaking back what I would encourage you to do is:  Figure out the process to "make it right" with the city, ask the contractor to pay for that (pay you back ideally, since they couldn't be trusted to do it right the first time), and then kick them to the curb. 

There are bathroom fans that you can buy which also act as a whole-house fan (run on a low and quiet setting even when not turned on) and it's really good for any unit to recirculate the air. 

Call and talk to them. 3) They'll tell you what's coming down the pipelineIf a bank-owned property sits long enough, they may take a nice low offer to get off the books (E.g. last year, I bid $240k on an REO that had an ARV of about $330k.

It can be easy to sit and wait for the perfect time to come along however its not so much about the time as it is about the property, the tenet and your reserves to plan for rainy days.Personally I think the best deals will come along in Aug-Dec but thats just my opinion who knows what is going to happen.