I'd message the sponsor and tell them you'll be traveling to the area and it'd be nice to get a brief tour to see progress.

Even better, get some self employment activity and sponsor a solo 401k then no UBIT on leveraged real estate!   

Unfortunately having title issues is one of the reasons that sellers are sometimes willing to do seller financing simply because they know mortgage companies won't approve without proper title work and title insurance so they have to be more creative in the ways they sell but that can be risky for you as a buyer.If you do seller finance I recommend having very specific terms on HOW payments will be made and accepted and using a professional service like https://www.agecroftcapital.com/ for loan management in the case of any disputes - just my personal rec, not sponsored by BP though I do work for BP :)

We advertisers would buy banners and email links, sponsor crap and flourish all without the consumer (eye balls) being force fed.   

We know how tricky it can be to find legitimate sponsors and solid deals, so we built PassivePockets to give you the tools, resources, and community support to help you invest with more confidence.

What was comical was I spent 20-30 minutes educating them on how to get fund sponsors.

WA, for example, requires that you take 20 hours of state-sponsored classes and pass a state-sponsored test.

Most importantly what do you know about the sponsor and what is their track record.

Maybe you can appeal to a city council person and see if they might sponsor increasing the number of licenses based on increases in new housing etc.

The challenge for a lot of wholesalers, is once they obtain the licensing, what brokerage is going to sponsor them in wholesale transactions?