Land trusts are way to obscure ownership.

Other than potential instability in the financial system, this repo situation is a bit obscure for me to translate to the real estate market.

here are some thoughts: 1) off market properties 2) more obscure value adds than a traditional rehab 3) alternative rent models such as STR, furnished long term rental, rent by room.I traditionally do value adds. 

An LLC's purpose isn't to obscure who owns it.

Unless there is some obscure local law I'm unaware of (which I highly doubt) then yes you can choose how you implement rent increases.

Many transactions later, the x,y,z gets totally obscured by the current balance.I chicken out and create new accounts for:property taxes (only two actions per property per year)IRS Estimated taxesfamily personal accountproperty operational account (all collections and bill payments)tenant deposits (in a Credit Union)

Forgive me if this feature has simply been moved to some obscure and difficult location.

Here are a few (in no particular order):Exit ValueReplacement CostPortion of IRR attributable to cash flow versus reversion (sale)Unleveraged IRREquity MultipleDebt Coverage RatioLoan to Value (every year throughout the hold)Break Even OccupancyDefault RatioRevenue Stress TestA few others that are a bit obscure and not that importantYou might notice one metric that is conspicuously missing:  Cap Rate. 

I thought I would throw an obscure "I wish I knew" out there as I'm sure others will come back with many nuggets of wisdom.

The biggest thing that scares me (even though my wife is Mexican) is the lack of certainty about what our property is really worth, and trusting the government won't just take our property from us citing some obscure rule or something.