Everyone that posted provided great information that helped me understand different aspects.Joe Butcher , thanks for being transparent with this process.Ellis San Jose, I appreciate the insight you provided.

Meetings are usually not very transparent and sometimes they don't properly announce them either, esp with a non-professional company who has lower standards and resources to do so.

We have one space where we bought a divider and ran that transparent fishing line from the ceiling to keep it from getting knocked over (not a rental) but something low impact to keep the messy "office" private.

IMO just because a deal is outside of the box doesn't mean it's a bad deal and I sometimes feel like, for some agents that I've worked with, if it doesn't fit into a standard, cookie cutter, every single day agreement -- it's wrong.I believe if everyone is transparent, if everyone knows the risk and there is a base level of protection is given in a deal-- then is a deal is a deal.

My buddy came up to me afterwards and told me he had no idea that I ran into any of these problems (as I never mentioned them) and he ended up thinking that he was doing a horrible job with his investing and was thinking of quitting.Lesson: Be transparent with your failures as well as your successes.

They are less transparent in many cases than SEC-filed companies; or at least that is the argument.

We're working on it, but there is a chance that some stuff may not be recovered.We hope to get this all solved, but I do want to be transparent with you about what's going on.

While you do obviously charge a fee for your services as you should, it sounds like you see both sides of the arrangement and do your best to be transparent.

Professional investors and agents do a great job making their deals as honest and transparent as possible.

Winston be 100% transparent in what you want upfront.