I am also a small car dealer and sell a few cars a month.

And that sounds like an awesome deal @Eric P. 

Ive also been researching dealers in the Sacramento/Reno area.

In some areas, a small dealer is exempt from origination requirements.

The gutter punks that sleep in them, the drug dealers that work out of them, the women who are raped in them, and even the folks who are murdered in them.

An agent gets the moniker of the IRS status of "DEALER" and on a joint filing, that can adversely impact the tax results. 

A bit like the drug dealer who claims he sold the briefcase not the drugs inside it.The way wholesaling is generally thought of, assigning contracts without the knowledge of the seller, there are consequences, those consequences range from failure to jail. 

The problem I have seen with many financial advisors is that they do not own income properties as the foundation of their retirement portfolio and many of them are just broker dealers of life insurance and mutual fund products, and not true AUM investment advisors or wealth managers.

The problem is that my property is on a corner and on the other corner is the neighborhood drug dealer that has run off my third tenant. 

There are 4 types of wholesalers. 1, the bunch that don't understand, 2. the bunch that do and don't care, 3. predatory dealers and 4. bulk buyers who attack a portfolio of properties and peel them off to single buyers. #1 are usually victims of bad advice, guru crap, they think they know, but don't have a clue. #2 & 3 are simply bad players in real estate, the low life types. #4 usually are dealing with sophisticated sellers, buying, say 20 homes at a time, they will line the transactions up and most likely have a real estate license.