The ones I have heard really bad things about were scamming all the poor Australians in 2009 and 2010 as well as coastal investors - I think for the most part they are gone.However, before you partner with any company be it as a private lender for those doing it themselves, a done for you turn key model company or even hiring a contractorback in those days I had not found BP but was a regular on the AUSSIE version and yes there were some very BAD actors in KC...

Alan, I would recommend attending a local investor group such as RIREIG or Black Diamond REI and asking some members there.It also depends on what you mean by "back to back closings".If you mean one closing after another in general, that's nothing special - there's no difference between having closings at 1pm and 2pm vs. 1pm and 5pm.If you mean that the first buyer doesn't need to bring money to the first closing because s/he is actually using funds from the second closing in the first closing, it's difficult to find an attorney who will do that these days.Like a lot of things, this is fallout from the financial crisis of 2008-2009 which resulted in things such as the Dodd-Frank regulation.Cleaning up after bad actors resulted in a lot of examination of closing and mortgage practices, such as The Detection and Deterrence of Mortgage Fraud Against Financial Institutions: A White Paper (2009).There are a lot of issues here and you might be best establishing a relationship with an experienced real estate attorney as an advisor in general (again, ask around at local investment groups), and then broaching the question of double closings.In general an assignment is far, far preferable to a double closing.

As with any industry there are the bad actors and the good actors.

Whether malicious or not, most wholesalers are inexperienced, and selling to an inexperienced buyer is a recipe for disaster.

it doesn't sound like they were trying to do anything malicious to your property...you even said they were hosing out the garbage can..i wish i had tenants that cared enough about my property to hose out their garbage cans, but i'm lucky if they even remove them from the street and bring them back to the apartments after trash day......i think a good tenant is worth more than 200 to fix a pipe, so i'd let it slide and let them know you're don't normally do this, but they've been good to you....i always tell my tenants i'll work with them on stuff if they're good to me

We will see.Ken is absolutely correct in that lending is a broad industry with many other legal requirements than just the SAFE Act or Dodd-Frank, all lenders that are in the business of lending are regulated/licensened to some extent and if for example one is not regulated by a particular agency they still have financial regulations to follow, like money laundering, postal requirements (fraud issues), SEC and on and on.

I am currently an actor in Atlanta (in the auditioning stages of my carrier ha ha ha) so I am fairly comfortable around a camera both behind and in front.

If a high post count their account may have been hacked and being used maliciously.

If there is no financial windfall to the buyer for the delay, and if there was nothing malicious about it, I would file it under "It happens" and leave it be.

And we always have 60,000 new wannabes getting off the bus to become actors with daddy's money and the $2,000 they have saved up pumped right into our local economy.