This is private and sensitive information...

Your only safeguard is the value of the property which is security for your investment.

This is not to say that an atttorney could not investigate and track down the owner, etc, but it would take many, many hours at $300-$400 per hour which will add up to thousands of dollars for the party wanting to find out the owner of a property held in a land trust.As far as getting "ratted out", their is a process/procedure to choosing your Trustee, and even if the trustee was looking to "screw you", there are many safeguards in place to prevent that.

Your in the game you might as well play where you have the greatest chance of success.It is all about risk assesment in my humble opinionI prefer to risk everything I have because if i lose what I have I will have it all back in under 5 years most likely in 2 years.If I don't risk it I know I will be broke and unable to retire.Hmmm what is retirement......I don't think Ill ever do that one because my definition of retirement is to be able to go where I want when I want and do what ever I want to do.........So I make a few phone calls during the day and make more money for doing so......I will never quit teaching people This business because It has made me a truely free man.One will never be free until one has no attachments in life because attachments by the nature of the word attach us or tie us down......I am not attached to my money or things....I can't take them with meI am not attached to life.......when i die my body stays hereI am not attached to my wife and son .....I love them but they are their own spirits.......If we had never taken the risk to travel to the moon we would have never reaped the benifits of such a great undertaking..Sorry but I believe that all things are possible to him that believe...I guess it's kind of a sensitive subject for me.

That provides a basis for which they can have a safe guard against predatory GC's who might want to drive the price up and convince them they should be knitting and writing more checks because they are not a GC. 

I have created a Discounted Cash Flow model on excel that utilizes sensitivity analysis, NPV, Profitability Index and other performance ratios so that you can analyze 15 different types of property or property under 15 different economic scenarios.

I try to not abuse agents because I'm sensitive to wasting their time as well.The more experienced agents seem to offer more disclosures (hot tub leaks for example) and are comfortable with passing on information you need to make an informed decision to buy.Pull comps on your local county database.

Generally the real estate lic. commissions' first object in any and all cases is to protect the public and safeguard the interest of the consumer.

However, antitrust sensitivity in the real estate arena is high as it involves housing issues which the government, at all levels, looks on with constant scrutiny.

Savvy OPM will setup safeguards within their funding to insure the borrower success.