But then I come along and I have the money to pay X a lot more
You actually pay X a lot LESS because cash in hand is better than waiting for payments. So he had a note with $10,000 left to pay down & you pay him $6,000. He's happy because he has $6,000 today rather than waiting another 3 years. So if Y ends up paying off the balance to you, you could make out with $10k plus interest.
The second example is a bit more complicated. You can't necessarily own a property just because you purchase a note. It needs to be in primary position to have any real power over the asset and even then you're just the lender. If X owns the note but Y owns the property, you are his lender not the owner.
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