Alot of people prefer to use a facility that has an onsite office simply for the perception that it is more secure.  

The biggest impact could be in the negative PR though, as sometimes perception becomes reality, factual or not. 

The savoryness of the activity and the perception of the character is based on personal opinion.

This hurts the site owner (discouraging people from coming back if they've left for a while for whatever reason) and hurts the users (people start to look less valuable just because they haven't been around, which is an inaccurate perception).

This event will likely change the inaccurate perception of RE investors and will be the first of many steps to irradiate the crooked gurus from our industry (Ok, that is fairly optimistic, but at least a great start!)

This is a great response..you have a very smart and perceptive wife J Scott if you dont mind me saying so.

Lots of people have the perception that it's a "buyer's" market or they can steal a REO.

It has to do with a combination of 1) each loan, or even property on a package loan requires a certain amount of work regardless of size, which makes small loans burdensome and 2) the perception that cheap properties are in rough areas or rough shape, which many banks consider risky.

With that being said, I'm torn between originality and perception vs cost!

I will say that some sellers are motivated but their perception gets skewed when they get a price from a realtor.