And the issue of holding intent comes into play at several points. 

I understood why I should have various inspections, but I never really thought about the concept of the realtor's intention.

I have NO intentions of opening an ad agency or doing some kind of training course. 

We tell them flat out that we have no intention of buying the house ourselves, and that we are going to wholesale it.

And let me tell you a secret. the majority of the people here have NO IDEA how to do wholesaling.If they don't flat out tell the sellers that they have no intention to buy the house and that they are planning to wholesale it, I can flat out tell you they are doing it wrong.

A lady in the building department at the City of Oceanside informed me we would have to sign something with the city attorney's office stating that our ADU would not be used for STR.If you research ADU's in California you will find that they are being pushed so heavily to address the lack of housing in the state so most of the cities are aiming at that intent and are doing a lot of follow-up by checking the STR sites for violators.

Yes it is a waste of your time for people to have different intentions that what you want.I would try funneling everyone to an open house instead of wasting your time showing to one person at a time regardless of their intentions.Hopefully this is more helpful to your situation. 

Many wholesalers go in getting a property under contract with no intent to close them self and only flipping the contract, this may also be illegal, often construed as fraud. 

I am now putting a wholesale team together to have THEM wholesale and they get a % of every dollar they make using my leads.ABSOLUTELY, I flat out tell the sellers I have no intention of buying their property and that I will wholesale it. 4 out of 5 times they sign when I tell them that.But I truly am handsome sexy and delicious.

It's not my intention to take business away from all the people that make money off of DMM .