In March of 2018 we sold our portfolio to a single investor and 1031'd into a 20-unit apartment complex, which we closed in August.As Yoda says, "Win or learn, no failures there are" (I might have made that up). 

Slow and steady wins the race.

We simply say, “Sorry but as we have only had the property listed for a couple of days, we don’t yet feel it necessary to lower the price.  

Simply from what you have stated I would think of taking this in a couple directions, both would involve forming an LLC.

While he was not a bad person, he simply did not uphold his side of the bargain.

With Debt deals, it is simply like earning interest in any type of bank account, and there are no tax benefits like depreciation available.I have invested in a number of crowdfunding and other syndication deals, but not Fundrise.

Many of these people come from areas where dinner is whatever is caged in the backyard ,where household garbage is simply tossed out the window and using cleaning products is nonexistent .it will be a learning experience to say the least

This is simply my high-level opinion as someone that works in the multifamily mortgage banking/lending space that does a lot of business with the GSEs and large National Banks in North Carolina.

(well kind of.. you see my point).Let's translate this to this scenario.Someone that doesn't make any money on wholesaling, that never tried, or that simply is tot good enough to succeed at it can NOT tell you that wholesaling simply factually does not work.

The best way to get answers for this is simply through interacting with them.