If you have a contract with a listing agent, they are selling your house and you have no obligation to them if you go and buy a house unless you signed buyer agency agreement with them.Side note, anyone working for .5 percent isn't worth working with and you sound like the worst client for an agent in the world.

If they fail the second inspection, I terminate their lease and remove them as quickly as the law allows.

My spouse and I didn’t learn our lesson here and took on a second partner in a real estate/restaurant operation and ended up again having to have legal action to sever the partnership when it failed.

The landlord could be held responsible for 3x the deposit if they fail to do soWhat provisions are in the lease agreement you signed ? 

Representing buyers or sellers, renting or leasing, auctioning real estate all require a license.  

Lots of wholesellers are just reassigning contract to buy a property to buyers instead for an assignment fee.

Don't let fear stop you from making a decision that can improve your life. agree value is simply willing buyer willing seller nothing more nothing less.. 

Moving forward, I’ll make sure I have a buyer’s agent in future deals.

But the cynical side of my brain knows the worst flippers out there will find a workaround for it and continue delivering low-quality flips to unsuspecting buyers. 

Large investment in a failed area,City should be paying investors to take those chances.