Some of the areas where that will cause investors to become frustrated are regular reporting, timely delivery of payments, accurate and transparent financials, timely delivery of tax documents, and the ability to meet target projections related to timing and returns. 

While I don't think that particular program was worth it (this was the free intro seminar and I never attended the weekend seminar that he was pitching), I respected his transparency.

Hey Jerryll, one thing I noticed about your site is that you actually went to considerable effort to go through the math involved with you arrive at your offer -- trying to offer a degree of transparency. 

Dear Bigger Pockets community:does anyone recommend a good, transparent property management company in Pittsburgh?

You better not come up with a calculation that comes out to be less than $1000/month NOI or you may actually LOSE money.2) You need to make sure everything is LEGIT/ABOVE BOARD/TRANSPARENT.

I've read books on this, but there's little transparency on the cost of land, cost of labor etc.

Yeah, I rather wholesale with you"We are still honest transparent, we don't lie, we leave it up to them to decide.

Seems like there are possibilities if the intention is completely transparent and both parties can profit.... partners in a sense instead of being sneaky. 

My thought is that they're not being transparent about the risk/amount of time it'll take to MAYBE find a property in this market where it'll work.

Lots of great points during that session but as Neal said, be honest and transparent and you'll have no problem attracting investors@Taylor L. great question and thank you for the accountability check.