And your concerns are well founded regarding the "SubTo Community" which teaches "zero down", "overleveraging" (you can use other people's money to overleveage to get the deal), "hiding the transaction", the guru of which doesn't even use Title Reports.

The PI thinks she is probably hiding from someone, prolly owes someone money.

I actually loved your first comment, and assumed that there was a silent rant hiding in there too lolWhen I bought my house and after extensive research in the areas I was focusing on, I realized that unlike most other markets, real estate is much more "accurate".

People might think you have something to hide.

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.  

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

At the end of the day, you won't be able to hide who you are even with this complex structure.

combined with hiding your free cash in a negative HELOC balance it tricks people into paying more on their mortgage....behavior economics.   

Zillow for some reason hides the sale prices of homes that were recently sold, so calculating this seems very hard)2.

I'd put fakes in plain view, then hide your real ones a bit.