Certainly budget for all of these, as well as the high transaction costs for sellers when creating an exit plan.The deployment concern is, in my opinion, majorly overwraught because of how the Army currently works in the current military operational tempo, and what an actual large scale military involvement would look like (it would be a tremendous boon for the area as new units were stood up, new soldiers posting here from basic, National Guard, and defense contractors flooded in, the Army Reserve activated and sent to Hood, etc.).And while a 1 industry town at the moment, it is a large city, the largest between Austin and Dallas, and still growing rapidly.

So within a week I was sitting in a hotel conference room with about 300 other people and about $5K less in my wallet.

We have used them as our back-end reporting layer for 10 years.You would also be wise to confer with a tax attorney.  

Okay, all drama aside I'm a security contractor over in the Middle East providing force protection for an American/Saudi defense cooperation contract...thing. 

You should purchase title insurance (always) which is your sole defense if such an event were to occur.  

If I were there, I would have struck up a conversation with the seller and worked some questions into the flow of the conversation that would clarify if the seller is open to creative acquisition strategies (I would have told the agent that I was going to talk to the seller if the conversation didn't just initiate naturally...don't surprise the agent).If you want to talk to the seller now, after you've left the property, you should go to your agent and ask if she'd be willing to ask the seller if she would participate in a conference call.  

District court judges and defense attorneys know the contracts investors create are not between "ready, willing, and able" participants.

Well, I know a federal defense attorney who won a Supreme Court case and offered to introduce his son to him.

This event can then create an affirmative defense for a borrower against foreclosure or can seriously affect the value of the mortgage in the secondary market under the same guise.

The auction I went to was a while back, but it was scheduled in a conference room at a Marriott hotel.