However, we still get beat up on a daily basis over our fees.I left one of the largest PM companies, who had those exact fees, and started my own business with the sole intention of eliminating all of those fees.

It's such a broad question that it's hard to answer.My original intent was financial freedom for my family.

The fact they ask you to do this is not only a red flag for obvious reasons, but also because, they should know better how risky this is for you and if they had true good intentions they would have understood that and not offer you that option.What you can do is tell them..

Now I would say many contractors do not do this with malicious intent.

We have all come with the best intentions and were lead to you. 

It is ill advised to make any improvements until the property is insured and goes without saying the property is not financeable. 

Always open to conversations with like-minded folks, but nothing I have specifically sought out intentionally... yet!

Are you intentionally looking to outsource the management and day to day operations to a management company versus self-managing? 

Anyone with good intentions is welcome!

If the intention was more transparency, then the lawsuit failed because taking the BAC out of the MLS is clearly less transparent, and doesn't solve the (non)issue of agents not showing properties that aren't offering BAC (I don't believe that was really happening but if they want to do that, they still can).