Best case you may only be able to gamble on appreciation.

It permits the landlord to remedy a person's noncompliance if a person obtains a reasonable housing accommodation by knowingly making a false claim or by knowingly providing fraudulent supporting documentation.

Also, travel, hospitality, and gambling will be hit hard for the immediate future4.

We also need sports gambling...

If done solely for "asset protection", then a judgment creditor can void the transfer as a fraudulent transfer.

If one were to try and make a second phony one with different info on it, it would not match what is on public record and once the first and real trust is executed, filed and sent into escrow, then it is the only one that would match and thus, the responsibility of escrow and title to make sure that others are not used concurrent or shortly after the real transaction takes place.A title policy would insure any buyer of fraudulent transactions so that should also be used 100% of the time in dealing not only with land trusts, but any transfer of RE title.

In the meantime, my in-law blew/gambled away a good portion of the money that insurance had paid him.

As a painful lesson that so many learned in the downturn, it is folly to include the gamble of price appreciation in our real estate analysis.

They've started doing this because of fraudulent cashiers checks.

So neither of us should take offense ...So, are you in the gambling business where you "roll dice", or are you in the investing business where the objective is to learn how to become more profitable?