@Douglas Rice I agree with everyone else that I have been using Zillow and it posts to others like realtor.com and gives you the code to add to craigslist, but I was talking with a friend that has rentals the other day and he told me that he decided to in the new paper a few months back and has found his best tenants through the newspaper ad.

Hopefully, others will have some (other) "bright ideas" for you to escape this mess, because living in a non-income-producing property, and buying more non-income-producing property, is not an ideal start!

It really only gets complicated when the body is not discovered for a extended time.It would be interesting to know what kind of a mess costs 48K to clean up.

Thank youIf you ask that colleague: "will you agree to advertise for sale, on my behalf, any property that I get under contract, while it's still owned by someone else, especially if I have no other way of closing on the Contract?"

@Charanjit Singh I think your question was already answered but just a few more thoughts.Commercial brokers are just like everyone else in that they would prefer to do their business during business hours and the more experienced, better brokers are probably more inclined to this than others. 

Just wanted to see if anyone else had dealt with this issue before (oh, great, snowstorm this weekend!)

Tenants that are well qualified for you are well qualified for everybody else. 

For the ones that have sufficient equity I would reach out to the seller to try to buy it, and if all else fails, I could try to buy it at auction.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Personally I love Northeast and Longfellow but unfortunately so does everyone else!