Land Trust are nothing more than a way to hide the ball -- great if you are just trying to hide ownership but, as far as protection, worthless.

You might want Tom to forward on this post to my team or if you have something to say be a man and call me ( its easy to hide behind the keyboard ), my contact info is in my signature.

Most of the lower income areas I buy in always have someone home because either they can't afford security or it's that bad plus many Mexican lower income households have no bank accounts and hide their money in the house.

Too many handymen and contractors, especially on small punchlist type jobs, try to get away with a total number to cover all the work, so that they can hide high or padded labor charges.

I'm guessing with short carpet, it's tougher for crap and gross things to hide and perhaps easier for a vacuum to pull out the mess.

Not sure I want to partner with someone who wants to hide information.

Painting crews are horrible about this where I am, so I lock or hide the cans

If the expenses are presenting way less, like 20%- someone is probably hiding expenses in the capital improvement part of the book.

Or does it look like they're hiding something? 

The only relevant question is if your "sneaky ways" will translate to a commercial 5+ unit property.If you want to hide your "sneaky ways" that's your prerogative but let me ask you this: How are those of us that own commercial properties going to tell you if it's applicable?