But you have control and you have an option to execute a purchase when you're ready.There is a 3rd option and that is that the owner could sell with owner financing and let the note go into the 1031 exchange account. 

You have to execute the close.Each one of those steps is way more than a message board post. 

Bringing investors into your deal, or providing general updates as you execute your business plan?

If you don't have real estate investing experience, what experience do you have that will convey to potential investors that you can successfully execute the business plan.

Maybe you can renegotiate; maybe you can't.If the buyer is all on board, you execute an assignment contract with him. 

Based on the research done by one of my staff members, 48% of foreclosures happen when the breadwinner stops working because of a critical illness.Some of the properties I bought in the past are from motivated sellers who became critically ill or had a death in the family.

I have been told that this doesn't count (my words), legally, according to Alabama state law.If the result of this correspondence is a Quitclaim Deed (or other outcome), is that outcome compromised in some way because we used email to get to it, even if the outcome is properly executed and, itself, legal?   

Insurance companies have deep pockets and large legal staffs. 

You should have had an executed Assignment Of Contract document executed from the wholesaler.  

By your own account you are executing the purchase of your new properties before you execute the sale of your old property.