I know it's a process, I have a few years of graduate school left, so I don't mind slow and steady on the project. 

Along with invoices for missing labor credit from Oct.Tenant left and house is vacant FEB 1st.  

You take $50,000 to pay off the principal and you are left with $25,000 plus you had 60 months of earning $166.67 per month of a total of $10,000. 

If I buy a single family home with a conventional mortgage and 5% down, I'll have enough left over to eventually buy another property if owner occupy it and use an FHA loan.

Without going into specifics she has around 80% worth of equity on the property, and around 13 years left on the mortgage.

Once he only needs 10% left from you, he could very easily bounce to a different job/prioritize you lower.

and of course everyone is this business was also like the poor homeowner they too were broke on in foreclosure so they just want to help now.. all these flowery BS letters I used to collect stacks of them the owners left behind.

One tenant left but the other two said they would pay the full $1800.

You haven't described the location or the condition of the home at any point during those last 10 years, so I'm left to speculate, but it is very possible that the sale for 69k could have been a very motivated seller.

They were able to pick up where the prior bank left off, and expedite their underwriting since all inspections and appraisals were complete, and funds were already in escrow.