@Roland Gray Welcome my friend!!

I grew up in MN and now live about 2 hours south of Seattle in the Grays Harbor area! 

hi takeshia from " elvis country"....lol. wholesaling is a good part of the flipping houses and RE world. however, each state has its laws regarding wholesaling. i would tend to believe a real estate attorney from the area on his or her opinion. i wouldn't say something is illegal if you can get a license to do it, its just illegal to not have the license. then we get into the gray area of exactly what wholesaling is. if you find a seller, and put them in touch with a buyer for their house, you are acting as an agent. without a license, that is illegal. but, if you find a seller, YOU get the house under contract to buy, and put in the contract your right to reassign the contract, that is wholesaling and might NOT be illegal. in that case, you are not acting as an agent because you are not bringing two parties together. you are actually contracting to buy an item, but then exercising your right to sell that contract which does have monetary value. just like a corporation creates a stock certificate and sells it on the stock market, it is just a piece of paper with monetary value that you are selling. please check with at least one other real estate lawyer and explain the process completely. show them how you would not be acting as an agent between buyer and seller but as an actual purchaser looking to sell the asset you have created. that may make the difference. 

Thinking of using gray neutral, but let me know! 

They say gray is the new beige!

Since the first $16,000 is NOT in dispute, base you deal and discount on that number and treat the remaining disputed principal gray area differently. 

If I leave a bunch of materials laying around and they get stolen, that's a gray area.  

@Andrew Gray a good place to start is with the "Ultimate Beginners Guide to REI" It is a free book here on BP.   

Sandy, it is a gray area.

I have also been seeing a lot of gray tones in paint.