"I'd like to think I speak on behalf of those exploited by wholesalers. 

This measure aims to protect property owners from being exploited and to maintain the integrity of real estate transactions.Regulatory Challenges:While state legislatures are making strides in regulating real estate wholesalers, challenges remain.

It doesn't matter what the "investor" thinks or what the "contractor" thinks - its what the standards say or else you can take a 1 $ bill and say its worth 5$ for me :-)All of the above is not said in order to encourage litigation , my aim is to only say that , there are lot of safeguards in place and either party need not be scared of something , It depends on who is trying to exploit whomIn this case , if you feel that - this is genuinely not a big deal for you , and that the job is priced reasonably well and if the contractor had best intentions then I would let it go .

It's crappy to do but it does look like they found a loophole that they're exploiting.

One of the core reasons to invest in distressed real estate deals is to exploit the market’s inefficiency.

However, there are people out there for sure who are trying to exploit the sales apparatus being offered.

Then the agent exploited the earnest money clause as a way to back out of the contract.

It's changing the rules mid-game by exploiting a loophole, and it's the reason so many people are up in arms about it (forget about the property cost rising).

You may have an opportunity but it is clèar to me that you have barely began to research and exploit the information at hand.

@Nate Reed Judging from his history of posts on BP, I'm confident he sees the value play and exploited it