If the contract just so happen to conveniently include a clause that says the buyer's obligation to seller extinguishes with the death of the seller, that could be mighty suspicious if seller strangely dies shortly after closing or during the term of the loan.

Doesn’t sound suspicious to me.

Resurrecting 2 year old threads...Just a bit suspicious.

I am sure there are some up and up wholesalers out there, but when I feel like there's not full transparency I usually become suspicious and back away.

They had a buyer but their commercial lending fell through (which makes me suspicious).

Good for you for being suspicious. 

Anything that is on the market for more than a couple weeks looks suspicious and people will start to wonder what's wrong with it. 

Most of the wholesale gurus and programs I've seen seem to either offer unrealistic expectation, suspicious practices, impractical advise, immoral behavior requirements, etc.  

@Brian, I'm suspicious that you say _they_ made charges on your credit cards, but then _you_ are paying them off. 

I got so far as to actually send the wire for the deposit (all the while having second thoughts) but thankfully my bank stopped the transfer because the account being used was suspicious to them for a reason they didn't state.