At home, they've been hiding from me and playing Ouija in some of the more out-of-the-way bathrooms and closets of my 8500 ft2 McMansion. 

Only way to actually hide it is to double close right?  

The seller seems like he is hiding something, I wouldn't move forward without walking through the entire place.If you walk away and it stays on the market you could also then submit a lower offer.

Don't feel that you need to share too much with your family but don't feel you need to hide things from them either.  

Significant skin in the game.There's no BP "protocol" against pitching seminars, gurus, networks, or anything else - I think she just knows how gurus and seminars are viewed around here, and hiding those associations just makes people even more wary.BP was founded on the concept of gurus are bad.

That was clearly a reference to hiding talents and not using gifts that were given by God (Jesus' parable about talents, in the New Testament).

What is the alternative, shut everything down, all hide in their homes?

. ;-) Oops, this destroys your case: (you'd better hide this and not use it in your arguments)[5] The TCPA makes it “unlawful for any person within theUnited States, or any person outside the United States if therecipient is within the United States ... to use any telephonefacsimile machine, computer, or other device to send, to atelephone facsimile machine, an unsolicited advertisement[.]”"

You can't just show the good things and hide the crap from everyone right?

wholesalers like to hide behind the solving the problem prehistoric.. but thats all it is.