From my experience a first time wholesaler would be setting themselves up for serious failure by randomly searching the market for a "Deal", then scrambling around trying to find a buyer for their deal as your suggesting.This method is completely backward from my experience because:#1 If you don't have a buyers list in place and your market is sizeable in the least, a first time wholesaler won't have a clue where to start.....By having a buyers list in place a first time wholesaler will at least have some direction to their efforts.#2 By not having a buyers list in place an investor sets themselves up to make far less profit on a deal because they are beggars instead of choosers.#3 Wholesaling is not a house business, it's a relationship business. 1 good house get's you paid once 1 good buyer gets you paid over and over.

Most of the transactions in the longer deals fall apart, so you end up scrambling and extending.

I’ve been scrambling to gather info to the point where I have totally confused myself.

You don’t want to be their next landlord who only gets last minute notice and has to scramble to find a new tenant.

However, is anyone scared that a sharp, long-term drop in the price of crude could leave investors scrambling to find tenants?

Then it takes the pressure off you scrambling to make the note payments. 

Also, scramble the lockbox numbers so that the lockbox doesn't stay in the ready to open combination; had a roofing contractor go through one of mine to replace a section of roof, and then the guy who was going to paint goes there on a later day and tells me the lockbox numbers were still in the open combination.

The whole portfolio was put at risk as the investor had to scramble to replace the financing.

However we are now stuck without a plumber and we are scrambling to get more plumbers to give us a quote.As this is in progress I decided to give the landscape tasks some attention.

In any legal scramble it should cost less as your attorney won't be trying to justify the business conducted between separate entities and the super ego aspects mentioned, it's all under one roof but the cells may be separate.