Then found court records for the foreclosure to see where they are at in the process. 

I am learning the process and will probably ask a million questions to better understand flipping, rentals and everything in between. 

I live overseas so it has added some complexity and additional time to the process. 

It's so critical to be as far down the process and even have the property under contract or even purchased by the time 45 days is over. 

"no pay") and/or holding costs (protracted eviction process). 

That seems to be the process.

Dear Portland and OR Investors,I just cleared a 3 month process in getting squatters out of a home purchase on Auction.com.  

., improper service of process. 

I wouldn't think they'd pay the 3% because there's no incentive for them to do so when they don't have to for any of their other buyers, so they could just sell the property to someone else.You can always do the lawyer thing but in my experience, lawyers are fairly ineffective at helping with anything other than to confuse the process with turnkeys.

I am currently on a work visa (L1B to be exact) and at the start of the employer sponsored green card process.