With many heirs and a 50-year history, you have no idea what skeletons could be hiding in the closets.

So if I was dealing with a seller who was insisting on handling the transfer this way, I would be wondering what the seller is trying to hide... and I would figure it out.

What markups do you think they may be hiding from you?

The guilty people know how to hide their tracks and could have been arrested under previous laws anyway, so all CTA law did was persecute small business owners. 

I'm not so worried about "anonymity" because the house is our primary residence, so we're not hiding, but we want to look like we don't have excess assets.  

It is much more helpful than pictures to see you aren't hiding anything.   

There are some people that get lucky and earn cash quickly, but they generally hide the fact that it was pure luck or how much work was involved.

People might think you have something to hide.

I don’t care to hide my fee as I will be very transparent.

The website 51west.properties also scores low on scam advisor ("owner is using a service to hide their identity, high number of suspicious websites on the server, registrar has a high % of spammers and fraud sites, website is (very) young, website appears to be hosted by a company with a bad reputation", all according to https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/51west.properties...)Trust your instincts.