I would add in things that are popular in REI, but obscure to the “normal” world to test just how experienced in real estate they are.

To be a real estate investor neither is necessary or better than the other, accounting might get you some of the more obscure tax laws but in terms of spending 10s of thousands on a degree, focus it more on what you want to do for a day job, both are good options and most jobs will ask for a degree in finance or accounting so it really doesn't matter.

If the owner is a company in a jurisdiction that obscures the principals (e.g.

There me be some obscure trust stuff you could do but that may be extreme for the situation.

Obscurity is your friend.

Not good.I suspect that there are also sponsors out there that do this to mask the true performance, obscuring the actual results from unsuspecting investors that don't know any better. 

At a high level, a land trust helps you obscure ownership where the LLC helps you limit liability. 

As some anecdotal evidence, the one example I have of a loan actually being called due is from a discussion with someone here in Atlanta who triggered an inquiry by the mortgage company because of some obscure reason related to them having done either a Subject To or some form of seller financing.

If that baseball reference is too obscure, I apologize.  

Offeror's surname may be obscured for security".That said, I have successfully orchestrated bidding wars when representing sellers.