Well I'm a turnkey advocate all day long, but if you are willing to put the work in and take on the risk, you can certainly do everything yourself.

Even though he was blowing off a serious potential buyer, over 10 minutes of his time.  

A lot of people on here are very helpful and don't just blow smoke so I am very appreciative of any input.

It may be weird or off putting for the relationship, but it's better than having the entire agreement blow up in your face and lose the relationship and agreement

But it's not a huge difference (here) & I don't have to worry about tenants blowing the house up.

Talk to either a financial planner or a CPA.I'm never an advocate for spending XX amount of dollars so you can save X amount on taxes.  

I am aware of the "Due on sale" clause that could potentially blow up in our face, and we don't have any safety net should the lender decide to call the loan, but I've also heard of that being a very rare occurrence as long as the loan is performing, so I'd hate for that to stop us from moving forward with this.

We have the same mow & blow guys from last 10 years so a little less grass and more  fruit so price has not changed.

@Ned Carey  agreed.. however it runs straight into the face of how guru's teach wholesaling.what I see this doing is causing blow back in profitability to the wholesaler if full disclosure has to be made.And I wonder what it does to the direct marketing pieces folks send out IE the one's that claim they are cash buyers when in fact they are not they are just assignors.. will be interesting to follow it.. and of course will be interesting to see if the state actually enforce's it.the definition of real estate brokerage as described above is virtually verbatim in every state no different its why there is a real estate industry to begin with. 

I was given one Saturday 8/5, plugged it in for 24 hours and it does not blow cold air.