The housing catastrophe was caused by lenders making bad loans and sloughing them off immediately to unsuspecting government agencies and Wall Street, leaving them without a chair when the music stopped.

None of them have their own money involved, they have a list of 2800 or so they say, investors that they mass email out a property, they usually get from the one off deals from unsuspecting students who bring in deals in hopes for a collaboration.

While they certainly have their place; land trust gurus spread misinformation from guru to guru to unsuspecting investor.Sorry to rain on your parade Chris but there is a lot of misinformation here.

It is a borderline crime the fraud that is being perpetuated on unsuspecting newbies. 

An attorney & CPA who has studied LT's has written a book on this topic and many other topics that gurus try to pass off to the unsuspecting.

If it doesn’t work out just stop paying rent and bail on the unsuspecting landlord. 

I did not see where you stated that if you pull a unsuspecting seller into this deal and you default that your going to crush their credit. 

The unsuspecting buyer at the sale backed out not realizing it was a junior lien. 

I did not pay subsequent taxes and it was sold on the next tax sale to another unsuspecting tax  deed buyer that bought it for far more than I paid for it.I was also close to buying another piece of property and i was willing to pay  over $250,000 but I found out that it was given as an easement to a conservation society. 

Jill Berg is on LinkedIn advertising Xpress loans 911 to unsuspecting individuals!!!