Hey all!

I am beginning my first wholesale transaction. This is an off market property that I sourced myself. The seller has NOT listed the house with an agent.

 I am supposed to look at the property tomorrow, the owner is an absentee, living somewhere else in Texas. I am in Fort Worth and so is the property. I have pulled comps etc and after my viewing tomorrow I think I will be ready to put him under contract, however I think I hit a snag.

The guy said "I have a friend of mine who is a realtor and I was planning on using her". He doesn't have the property under contract however, just considering using her.

My question is, how would you lock this down?

My thought was to tell him "look, there isn't enough margin, so if you bring a realtor in, I will have to take that out of your net."
Would you just throw a contract at him and fingers crossed he signs and we close the deal?

I imagine him bringing a realtor "friend" in would pretty much kill the deal because any equity we are making here would probably be disclosed to him and he would just take the deal off the table.

I'm a newbie, what can I say🤷‍♂️

Thanks for your any advice you can offer here. Really looking for the best way to take a hot lead and get him to the closing table.
Thanks again!

(Alex, if you're reading this, yes I copied and pasted my message to you here as well. My fingers are getting tired from all of typing 😁)