Third: Do you have monuments with your company in your current space that you need to protect against the unknown market conditions?

OP is NOT solving sellers problem, OP is just making sure he help delay large capital gain for seller for the next 10-12 months until new financing is found (unknown to seller). 

The lender will also do his own preliminary underwriting to determine estimated loan terms which would go into your underwriting.After an offer is accepted, detailed underwriting goes along with due diligence (audits, etc.) to confirm any risk that may have been unknown during the preliminary.

I know real estate is a lot of work and is filled with unknowns, so I have spent a great deal of time trying to forecast errors and get as much advice as possible before I dive in.I know you can only do so much of this planning but after listening to a BP podcast and hearing them reference the website discussion I figured I should start posting asap for others in a similar boat to track my progress.

Translation....”I only have $10,000, no chance in hell of qualifying for a loan, looking for a sucker to finance a house for me with 5% down” .....or, “I’m a wholesaler looking to flip it to some other unknown person, described above”.

If its something out of your wheelhouse, then i'd probably look for 20+% UNLESS you had an extraordinary plan to succeed in the project.Whether this guy is right or wrong comes down to the project risk and your experienceI agree that returns must be risk adjusted ... so not only $Return/$Invested but also $Return*%Risk ... keep in mind that if you are an unknown entity to this investor, then he will likely adjust up %Risk.

Quiet title is when there are no obvious or unknown people or entities that can make a claim to the property.

It is unknown here.

Somebody wanting to sue for you backing out of a bad deal or accusing you of selling them a property with defects like unknown termite damage).

Better to make sure you've got a car that can handle the journey, than to set off into the unknown and breakdown in the middle of nowhere with no one to help you but a sketchy looking trucker named Red.Good luck to you!