I'm being 100% transparent with colleagues and leaving myself OPEN to LEARN.

Guests who remain in the home for more than three nights/week over three consecutive weeks shall be deemed tenants and subject to tenant screening and landlord approval.And to be transparent, we added this language to all of our leases after being in a situation like you are in where what were initially "guests" began to look a lot more like tenants. 

just my honest opinion from experience being 100% honest and transparent with my sellers.

We are a smaller, fully service, family-owned boutique style company with a focus on transparency and communication.

I always want to talk about how they are wanting to finance the purchase and structure.To consider any extension from this borrower you might make a condition that you are allowed to speak directly to their lender in writing so you have total transparency of what is going on. 

Everything you put your name on should be blatantly transparent, and imply that you're a real estate professional.

I am a little confused, as I thought this type of transaction required the investor to be transparent with the lender(s) because they are going to be getting their money from a different checking and routing number now.Shouldn't I be telling them I plan to make the loan current and pay all future payments?

has a feature called Quick Sign that will do what you mentioned, i.e. take a scanned image of a signature and initials and let you drop them into a document.The difference with Quick Sign and just dropping in an image is an image will often obscure part of the document; Quick Sign goes right over the top with a transparent background.

Further, here are a couple sections from a recent California DRE Short Sale advisory:California real estate licensees would be well-advised to be completely transparent and to fully disclose, and document the disclosure of, all material information, side-deals, and concurrent and related transactions to all parties to short sale transactions, including, without limitation, all involved third party participants and payments.

Mark Kindy I would encourage you to be as transparent as possible with sellers.