You can always hide that transfer inside of a Land Trust.

And I've noticed more and more gurus are being super sneaky about hiding the names and locations of the glowing testimonials to make sure you can't verify their claims.

What are they trying to hide by not allowing you into the home?

Any time I see this, it makes me think they are hiding something.Make sure your pictures look good.

It was all very shady, like she had something to hide. 

Because that will get them to explain all their fees, etc, without being able to hide this, or that.Ask for references, be it clients, or other companies they work with.And yes, if you can stay local, stay local. 

The seller's agent only cares about their client and with multi-families, sellers always 'fudge' the numbers or try to hide things that might affect NOI/Cap rate. 

This keeps people from using an LLC to hide or pay money to the IRS by continuously losing a profit.

I personally would not hide this information from the banks and some of the reading i have done suggest that is what some people do and it puts a black mark on the industry.

If you reply to that craigslist.org email address, Craigslist then forwards your email to the seller's "real" email address.Scammers can hide behind this, sure.