We don't use agents to list our units and haven't for at least 10 years, it's too easy to do it on Zillow or really many other sites now-a-days.

However, the terms of the current lease will remain the same (rent amount, fees, end date of lease..,) The realtor suggested to get a new lease from me everything the same but now month to month.

My goal is to obtain a property requiring rehab while living in the same property for the first 12-18 months. 

Maybe it's the same where your property is located.

I informed her the same day that when I put out my garbage a man went dumpster diving as no garbage was left in the home. 

I was going to say the same thing.

If you really want the property and don't mind a small gamble put down an amount of earnest money that you will not be upset to lose and that if you were in the seller's shoes would make you feel OK about taking the property off the market for 60 days and make it non-refundable to be conveyed to Seller upon offer acceptance. 

Where I am in Texas if it is a normal loan from normal bank, they step in the day before the sale or morning of the sale and get it resolved and the property never ends up in the sale.If the loan has small balance, or is some kind of private money loan or I would say unsophisticated lender then some chance it goes to sale.

State are making it difficult for all of us due to the same reason. 

Stunning nature with the Pacific ocean and gigantic Santa Monica Mountain Range out the door with year round near perfect weather.Close to everything from Malibu to Calabassas, Ojai, Santa Barbara etc and within the same 45 min to 1 hour distance ( traffic depending) to 3 commercial airports, namely LAX, BUR, SBA.The university, USCCI is the only one of its kind growing in leaps and bounds while general enrollment numbers are in decline everywhere else along the CA coast.