They've discovered for themselves that most of these negative ideas don't correspond to the reality on the ground. 99.999999% of them have had nothing to do with drug cartels and have been just fine and want to go back at the first occasion or don't even want to leave.

If you're genuinely unhappy with your job that's a different story, to be frank your path to financial freedom doesn't start by quitting your job. 

I genuinely don't want to go out and get a job and give up especially after working hard pursuing goals of entrepreneurship, but I'm currently very unsure if wholesaling is something I want to do again.

The mortgagor discovers the 'sale' when loss payees on insurance are changed/ altered so there are some nuances to doing it. 

This is what led me to discover this issue in the first place.I am extremely obsessive about my accounting and have been known to waste hours tracking down an errant penny…it’s a problem haha.

If you show people that you are genuine, transparent and ethical you will do just fine. 

Like Warrent Buffet says, "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

The best places for genuine advice aren't echo chambers  :) Solar leases should typically have a development period where they are paying $X/acre per year no matter what (say 5-7 years), then the lease terminates automatically if they don't build anything on their leased area at the end of that period, then it goes up during the construction period, and again during operations with a yearly escalator.

He's 80 and not overly savvy so I want to discover some tax implications to better understand his situation so I can negotiate better.

I discovered that not all work required permits in some areas.