Unless that realtor actually represents you meaning she is contractually obligated to you she is not representing your interests, she is representing seller’s interest.
You are being kept in the dark for a reason. Suspicion would be that property would fetch considerably less at auction than the amount she’s wanting you to pay.
The whole deal sounds screwy. Don’t do it, imho.
“You are being kept in the dark for a reason.”
Nine months of skipping rent makes a person glow in the dark. To a lender, a realtor, a banker, such a person is positively radioactive.
There’s also a whole community of flippers known to the average realtor of junk property. Could well be the realtor already has other plans for this place, regardless how concerned and sympathetic she claims to be. (Call me cynical.)