That's all wholesaling is as it's taught in these programs, it's brokering real estate except instead of being up front & telling the distressed seller that you'll sell their property for X amount & take X amount as your commission / fee you are taught to lie to the seller & pretend you are going to buy the property while you secretly attempt to "assign" your contract.It doesn't work.

I still have no idea if it was actually broken or if my landlords lied to save on maintenance.

Again saving $100k is no easy feat on a military salary so I am sure your motivation lies to some degree in those goals.

That's all wholesaling is as it's taught in these programs, it's brokering real estate except instead of being up front & telling the distressed seller that you'll sell their property for X amount & take X amount as your commission / fee you are taught to lie to the seller & pretend you are going to buy the property while you secretly attempt to "assign" your contract.It doesn't work.

There are so many media lies where they just make things up and pretends it's real--this could be a complete fabrication.

They immediately realized that this person was lying because before July 25, when their offer for the property had been accepted and went under contract, they visited this property not once and it always was vacant.They asked the "tenant" to present a valid ID and the rental contract.

I'm not going to lie this is all very overwhelming and a tad bit scary, but I appreciate your honesty.

In fact, I would be extremely surprised if there were not a lot of misses on that end because their numbers were the most optimistic that I could imagine without lying.

And went to Gus' fried chicken in Detroit! 

Here's what I see happened:You:  My offer is $155kSeller:  NoYou: OK, My next offer is $160kSeller: NoYou: OK, My next offer is $165k,...and it's the highest I'll go (which you've already proven to be a lie in their eyes)Seller: NoDid they ever make a counter offer?