We'll be going with the natural wood look to facilitate repairs

Wholesalers have many legal hurdles to clear.Not having the intention and ability to perform, is not dealing in good faith, the contract is invalid.A contract made for the purpose of facilitating an illegal act is not valid, if you have no intention of buying, don't have the ability to buy, the contract is only made to establish an agency relationship or allow activities that are otherwise restricted or not allowed, the purpose of the contract is questioned.

Some of those companies are custodians, some are TPAs (third party administrators), and some are facilitators.

If you get his blessing, and commitment, you could act as facilitator, by hooking him up with a probate attorney.

The tenant is paying that mortgage with your facilitation, you are just a middle person in it are you not? 

Attorneys may also close transactions and they will also have escrow accounts to hold money in trust to facilitate a closing.

The problem, no offense, is that you started in a guru niche of wholesale deals and didn't begin RE with the bigger picture of the basic steps to facilitate any type of deal.

Equator.com is a facilitator for lenders and third parties like agents and other service providers.

In this situation there was no listing agreement and the agent did not help with nor facilitate the sale.

Also honor the money.. there are thousands of guys like us that can bring deals we are not the rare commodity its the money that needs to be honored .. my success working with private money for going on 4 decades is you have to understand what our role really is.. and its a facilitator of deals to think we are even partners with the money right out of the chute will usually lead to frustration..