I'm planning on using a typical GMP contract style with industry standard contingencies. 2) If my company is brand new, but I have a backlog of building experience including the scope of work, how would you handle that, being sure to maintain 100% integrity at all times?

@Jacob White  well look at it this way.. if you troll around BP you will see post after postlike thisHey I am brand new I have never done a deal so I am going to start out wholesaling.this leads folks with their only education reading posts on BP which some are good some are bunk.and they simply don't know what they are doing... and they foul up sellers... big time. they deceive sellers big time... and then complaints are filed.. and the state takes actionvirtually every state has the same laws on the books some enforce it others don'tIf there was no need for a license in real estate to bring two parties together and then make a feethen there would be no need for a real estate industry at all....

IE by reputation in the industry as one who can actually fund... wholesalers to me are dime a dozen. 

"Agents" like this are what give our industry a bad rap.

A better use would be to take profits you make in the industry and re invest it in your business.

If we did not need license to bring buyer and seller together there would be no RE industry at all..

Based on my knowledge of the industry it makes more sense to grow indoors on a large scale.

Let the wholesalers find the motivated sellers and everyone in the industry is happy. 

Do you required a non-refundable EM deposit even though that is not standard in the RE industry?

By perpetuating the social stigma of being a "felon"; denying access to employment, denying access to housing..you do nothing but encourage recidivism..and continue the vicious cycle..which is exactly what your government and for-profit prison industrial complex wants. - A productive member of society who was once a court date away from being a convicted felon.