Do you think maybe grieving families have different priorities than selling off assets right away? Or maybe they're trying to sort out among themselves who is in charge of making payments? Or maybe they can't afford payments because the breadwinner passed away?

I'm not trying to judge what you do or what situations you're a part of, but it doesn't sound much different than the "vultures on the court house steps" to me.

Foreclosure takes 1+ year in my state. I consider myself an acquirer of abandoned property at that point, and again, I don't pursue acquiring the property if there is a family attempting to live there (as you say, after he breadwinner has passed).

Makes sense.