I might add that they were never legally married, but likely would have been common law married in the state of Kansas except that the partner apparently was a bigamist as we have since discovered that he was married to another lady from 1990 until 2019.

I had a lady do that to me.  

I convinced my husband to allow several young ladies traveling nurses for 1 month each (so only 1 bedroom was ever a guest room).

I highly doubt this young lady told the seller she does not have the ability to buy it and will not buy it if she cannot assign the contract  ( assignee clause is fine but its intent). so look at it from sellers point of view they have no clue that someone else is going to buy it show up and  see this wholesaler making 4k off of her.. get pissed and do this.. it probably would not have mattered if the OP was present at the closing the seller could still have just said no.. walked out got with the buyer opened escrow and closed..

I am obviously playing in the Wild West and not the mls because I am very aware of the Raleigh-Durham market and the macro economic trends.  

Then I worked on improving and actively enforcing the rules and regulations: Trash all over the place, smoking in building, dumpster, parking at the property was just wild and even dangerous.Simultaneously I tackled deferred maintenance items.

@Tim West no disrespect but wholesaling is NOT a profession.. its simply the wild west with all sorts of actors .. from really bad to nice and good.

The lady at the call center tried calling EVERY number listed for her to call.

On the whole it's a wildly UN-profesional market.

I just learnt that the couple split and the lady moved out with the kid.