You are morally correct.

The moral of the story here seems to be, you are not dealing with the real owner of the property.  

So in brief here is what i had find:       I had spent a couple of more hours looking at the "Legality of wholesaling in Maryland" and the more I had looked the more I realized that most of the articles on  Wholesaling  are just views of opinions of individual authors, passing moral judgment (in some cases for good reason) but as far the law concerns, I could not find any EVIDENCE that wholesaling would be illegal in Maryland or on a Federal level.

So the moral to this story is no matter how much profit you have in the deal, if your in a bad location or can't sell then what's the point.

(I know, same moral hazard as rental vouchers...I'm just curious as to anyone's experience with the program.)Edit: HUD link http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?

As to the bad side looking at strictly the moral issue, again you have to decide based upon your morals or the extreme needs of your business.

City Rehab Estimates : I would use as basic guide line of correct city outstanding code issue.After purchase is completed contact brew city code department : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - let them know your new owner of record - request to be taking off of month to month city inspections - City inspector will check on the property after 3 months for progress, 5th month you would receive a warning for outstanding issues, and sixth month you will be fined for outstanding issues Moral -> try to resolve any outstanding issues in the first 3 months

However, just one deal a year easily covers that out of the commission so it's a cost of doing business, and to me it makes sense.Being held to a higher standard and having to disclose being a licensee isn't really a negative for me, I firmly believe the only way to build a sustainable, localized business of any kind is shooting for a win for both parties through full transparency and doing the right thing at all times and in every deal (sorry didn't mean to moralize).On the broker front, I'm signing up with Summit Realty Group, they're licensed in Texas, operate virtually, and charge a reasonable per-transaction fee only.

@Sean Gibson ,So let me see if I understand this correctly, taxpayers are paying you while you are conducting personal research on a daily basis and using official police authority and equipment paid for by taxpayers.Is there not one person left out there with morals or ethics?

If you want money and have no moral character you will throw anyone under the bus.