BSD An investor’s nightmare, as depicted in the Talmud. You bought this gorgeous piece of land and started investing in it. Then came people who claimed – and proved – that this land was mortgaged to them by your dear seller (who failed to pay his debt). Now they want the land, and they’re right. The due diligence was on you to begin with.
One saving grace is that the debt’s sum is equivalent only to the original value of the land, not to your extra investment. So now that the mortgager is moving in to the property, you deserve a payback for your hard-earned investment. And here starts a dispute: You want to receive what you deserve by retaining part of the property (equivalent to your investment’s worth), but the mortgagers want to own the entire land and pay you back in cash. Who is right?