These people are also your neighbors now, so there is a fine line to walk.  

I think equities investing is the best way to take advantage of huge market downturns.During the downturn I was finishing up college with a few real estate deals going on and I had little cash, but invested as much as I could in the market (financials were the best at the time) and more than doubled the cash I invested in less than a year.I was a finance major and during my finance/business class lectures I would talk about my investments when we would discuss news in the Wall Street Journal.  

I expected an investor bidding war with a final sale price in the high 200s.

My name is Markus Vogl, i am a finance and banking student from Germany (near Frankfurt, Aschaffenburg). 

It's a fine line sometimes.

After some more research I learned that the mortgage company is suing and there isn't a final judgement yet.  

Now this sounds like a good idea, and while it will not affect most transactions.....we have all been there when we do a final walk through the night before closing and something is amiss.  

I'm a finance/accounting nerd, so I have a monthly budget, retirement accts, real estate 10 yr plan, student loan payments, credit score calculations, etc. that I update monthly.  

There's a finance concept called money velocity.

Are you OK with signing a final lien waiver agreement at the end of the job?