/Attorney/Trust service to ensure your concerns/desires are being met while still achieving State compliance and to act as intermediary when breach has or is thought to have occurred. 

@Shane Abbott are they simply wanting to broker the your down and uplegs or are they suggesting they will help with Qualified Intermediary matters?

I now have a couple of solid sources, a list of intermediaries that I won't work with, and have a nice list of both smaller buyers and larger scale buyers.

Can't wait till that note pays off and I just use them as an intermediary.

A big part of why I got my license was to make it easier to communicate, and skip an intermediary.

The wholesaler thats bringing the buyer is the intermediary between the original wholesaler and the buyer.  

Not really understanding your question but you need a qualified intermediary that is arms length away to pass the sniff test of the IRS.

You will need a Qualified Intermediary (typically the attorney) to hold the funds between transactions so you don't disqualify yourself from the 1031.We have worked with IPX1031.com with great success in the past.

You would identify the replacement property, have the Qualified Intermediary acquire and hold or "park" legal title to the new replacement property, and then build out the new property while the Qualified Intermediary is parking legal title to the property. 

If you have the ability to close but intend to assign your contract, you are an intermediary and should have no equitable rights.