But I imagine for people who are relying on using, say, HELOCs for acquisition and rehab, it'd be great to be able to use "Delayed Financing" as a way to quickly get 70% of the purchase plus rehab price back so they can quickly pay back most of the money they took out of their HELOC.

NOPE 4 million was the bid.. hell we are only paying 4.4 for the whole track.. plan B I love this end of real estate .. most folks don't know squat about it and don't want to and rely on others you need to educate yourself on it.. and then work with the closers to make things happen.on your tax sale one.. if it goes to tax's does not matter who owned it right at least out here it would not tax sale clears title completely in our area.. everything except property tax's are wiped off and IRS has their short redemeption period.. speaking CA and WANOw in Oregon to my knowledge is the only state in the county that if you don't pay tax's it escheats to the state they take it in and sell it some years later as surplus.the state does not want to do this and will go to great lengths to help people not lose property..

Do you typically rely on a good agent to help you find properties (and if so do you recommend anyone)?

You can search for local REIAs on this site.

(sort of... maybe.... still digging....)I document my journey as I continue learning more about commercial real estate world of multi family investment/ownership so feel free to check out my site. 

Hey Chris, I just joined the site as well.

@Mike Stadel Use census.gov and other sites to research your market.

@Mauricio AlvarezThis site (under events) and meetup.com are pretty good. 

Hello everyone my name is Arthur, I’m new to the bigger pockets site.

It appears to be a site where real estate agents can apply to be the agent for your house.