Guides · checked October 21, 2026
The mechanics behind the checker: counts, marketing lines, structures, city layers — and the two corrections that show why this site dates everything.
Illinois, Virginia, Minnesota and the rolling 12-month count.
The distinction every wholesaling law turns on — and where public marketing crosses it.
Oklahoma and Louisiana wrote it into their statutes. Illinois didn't.
The city license that stacks on top of Pennsylvania's Act 52.
The bill the internet states as North Carolina law — and its actual paper trail.
What California wholesalers actually face, and the forms trap nobody mentions.
Enacted, dated, coming January 1, 2027 — what changes and what to do in 2026.
The two phases of SB 201.
$285, the disclosure report, the 90-day cap, the recording ban.
Every state with a wholesaling-specific law, in the searcher's exact question. The other 28 jurisdictions are in the full 50-state table.
Yes — with written disclosures and a 3-business-day heads-up. Alabama wants the seller told, in writing, that you intend to market your equitable interest — before you start — and
Yes — with two written disclosures. Before a binding agreement, a wholesale buyer must tell the seller in writing that it is a wholesale buyer; a wholesale seller must tell the buy
Yes — after you register. Since July 1, 2026, Connecticut wholesalers must register with the Department of Consumer Protection ($285 for two years) before acting. From October 1, 2
Disclose now, license soon. Delaware's disclosure and 21-day cancellation rules are already live (since August 30, 2026), modelled on Pennsylvania's. The license requirement for an
Once — maybe. Illinois counts deals on a rolling 12-month clock. Dealing in assignable contracts on 2 or more occasions in any 12 months is a 'pattern of business,' and a pattern m
Yes — but Indiana polices how you knock on the door. Its law is a solicitation regime: every mailer, text, sign, and post from an unlicensed buyer must carry a specific disclosure
Not on your own. Iowa is the strictest drafting in the country: you must be a licensed broker, or be represented by one, to wholesale a 1–4 unit home at all — and you owe written d
Privately, yes — publicly, no. Signing a contract and assigning it quietly is lawful in Kentucky. Advertising an equitable interest for sale is brokerage, and doing it without a li
Yes — without a license, but with the heaviest disclosure pack in the disclosure tier: a statutory notice in the contract, the state cancellation form, a 5-day cancel-for-any-reaso
Yes — with written disclosures, on a narrow set of homes. Before the contract: tell the owner in writing you may assign it. Before assigning: tell your buyer in writing you hold eq
Yes — but start two weeks early. Missouri gives you the longest fuse in America: a separate, bold, signed disclosure at least 14 calendar days before the contract, or there is no b
Privately, yes — publicly, no. Nebraska put 'publicly marketing an equitable interest in a purchase contract' inside the definition of broker activity, carved it out of the owner e
Yes — with a written disclosure to everyone at the table. And note the scope: since August 2025, North Dakota's rule covers all real property, not just houses. It is the broadest d
Yes — if you hand over one very specific piece of paper first. Ohio's new law (March 2, 2026) requires a separate, standalone, bold 12-point disclosure, signed and dated, before an
Privately, with paperwork — publicly, no. Oklahoma's Predatory Real Estate Wholesaler Prohibition Act bars unlicensed public marketing of an equitable interest, and since November
Yes — after you register. Oregon does not ask for a broker's license, but since July 1, 2025 you must register with the Oregon Real Estate Agency as a Residential Property Wholesal
No. Since January 4, 2025, wholesaling is broker work in Pennsylvania. If you promote the sale of an equitable interest in a 1–4 unit home to assign it for a fee without taking tit
Today: no wholesaling license law is in force yet. On January 1, 2027, that changes completely — Rhode Island's new law will require an active real estate license to enter a wholes
Honestly: South Carolina is the closest thing in America to a ban on the usual wholesaling model. Assigning your own contract, privately, is not by itself 'wholesaling' under the s
Yes — with written disclosures, in bold, inside the contract itself. Tennessee's 2025 law wants the seller told before signing that you intend to market your equitable interest, an
Yes — if you disclose in writing, first. Texas lets you assign a contract without a license only on two conditions: you are not acting as a broker, and you disclose in writing — to
Once — maybe. Virginia copied the Illinois model in 2024: dealing in real estate contracts, including assignable contracts, on 2 or more occasions in any 12 months makes you a brok
Yes — with written notice at two moments: tell the seller you are a wholesaler no later than signing, and tell your assignee, no later than the assignment contract, that you hold e
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