I will see if I can find it, but I watched this couple on tv being interviewed last week. They are ANS's friends who live/lived in So. Carolina, I believe. But, yes, I remember them saying just what you said. That they "sold" the house in the Bahamas to Anna knowing that she did not have the cash *yet* but she fully anticipated she would in the near future. This couple claims to have numerous emails from Anna regarding intent to pay and they believe she was truthful and that she would indeed have kept her word. The issues had more to do with HKS somehow...like he was trying to keep Anna from paying. This couple did not like Howard and didn't trust him.
You can do a sale with NO cash..the owner holds the paper..but the title has to be transferred. No title transfer was done..those people weren't idiots...