You are in business and you have a disgruntled customer.

Intrinsic benefits might be your ability to use a property as additional collateral in another transaction, it might be some community benefit that makes you a hero in your community, good will, or generating other business opportunities.A good investment is one that doesn't cost much to get into, doesn't present headaches, that cash flows to pay for itself, doesn't eat any hay, and appreciates in value!

He is aggressive and provides great customer service. 

If they are in a position to re-finance I would offer them a discount on the balance - which still could generate a return of 20%+.

Although the seller would be the customer in a wholesaling transaction, I am not obligated to them in a fiduciary sense.

If you want to start generating cash flow for future use, then focus on looking for an investment property.

If you're not "married" to your local market here in the Inland Empire then your thought of investing in the Midwest is likely a prudent one.For $90,000 to $130,000 you can get a three bedroom home in a great neighborhood that generates double-digit cash on cash returns.When you live in an expensive market where the rents are relatively low to the purchase price, it is difficult to get attractive rates of return.  

Most of the time, I'm doing custom stuff on MySQL/PHP at certain build levels on apache systems, with minimal UI (95% web-based anymore).

For those investors who've partnered with General Contractors, please share how you chose to structure your partnership and how profits generated and shared?

I also suspect your TK operator does this to create immediate satisfaction in the customer.