Then the police raided and tore the place apart looking for drugs, and THEN it finally went to auction.  

Son-in-law goes back to drugs and takes off.

If you are a pharmaceutical company who spends lots of $$ on R&D you keep debt low so if a drug flops you can limp along until the next drug hits the market.  

If you go a little deeper into that part lots of drugs.

More moving parts, emotions and D potential (death, divorce, disinterest, drug use, default etc) the more potential for problems!

Find (and there are a few excellent ones right here on BP) a real negotiator to handle it for you as an investor. lastly, excuse my tone, I'm tweaked out on Rockstar :) my drug of choice these days.

Criminal minds can be so creative, that if chanelled in the right avenues, the success should be equal to if not greater than drugs, guns, and prostitutes.While it may seems simple, to just say "hey why don't you try something legitimate" we are dealing with much much larger socio-economic issues/roadblocks.

Would a pharmacist approach a patient to offer a different drug who was under the care of a doctor?

Has any landlord here ever had to evict a morbidly obese bisexual drug addict, her fetishist feeder boyfriend, and all their sex toys and vintage fat-fetish porn VHS video collection?

They could be borrowing the money for the down payment, or they could be drug dealers with illegal money, hard to say!