real estate advice

A friend of mine and his wife were recently able to purchase a house at a rock-bottom price because the couple moving out was in the midst of a messy divorce, and each wished to pocket his or her share of the money and flee in due haste. The friend suggests:

Let me wholeheartedly advise you that, when you're ready to buy a place, you maybe want to routinely call and hang up on some married woman for a while before stomping around her front yard at four in the morning drunkenly screaming "BUT I LOOOOOVE YOU, JIM! YOU CAN'T JUST TOSS ME ASIDE LIKE THIS!" Because, seriously, what's he going to tell his wife? "Sweetheart, I've never seen that woman before in my life," say? Or perhaps a "I don't have any idea why she's making this all up," -- whatever it is, it's soon going to shift into "Would you stop packing, dammit", as well as "Fine, we'll sell the house right now to hurry these divorce proceedings along. Just stop crying all the time!"