And, importantly, fear around my ability to confidently show the Seller that the deal I am proposing is one that CAN help solve their challenge or problem (once I find out what that is!). 

@Matthew Armstrong what was the specific challenge with you being outside the US?

I have not heard of the IRS challenging, much less overturning a professionally done cost segregation study. 

Challenges?

Needless to say, that killed the deal.So yes, in today's environment you need some value add strategy if you expect to have some net positive cash flow at the end.

I appreciate your honesty about the challenges of wholesaling.

Colorado has very low limits (near the detection limit) for meth so it's a real challenge.

It's tricky every country has its own rules, regulations, eminent domain laws, corruption sometimes, different types of property taxes and becomes challenging even if your duel citizen.

Plus there is a two year potential challenge period. 

It's not a big hit to me if both projects go to zero, but I'd still like to know what's going on given that the group has missed two reporting periods.I know that this kind of thing has been somewhat common among syndicators in the past year or two due to financial challenges but I don't think rising interest rates should have hurt these projects much.