Its seems to me that the main benifit of using a simple land trust to hold title to your properties is that it will hide the owners anme form public record.

A lot of investors fear failure so much they delay investing – spending thousands on one real estate investing course after another – trying to convince themselves that they’re investing in their futures, when in reality they’re hiding from it.

Keep the business and accounting simple until you see if this is going to work for you and you need some sort of elaborate scheme to hide your money.

If HIDE owns it, it was thru a mtg foreclosure.  

The military contract will be 6 years and I'm not a big fan of just hiding it under a rock aka sitting in the bank. 

My gut tells me he may be hiding or minimizing needed repairs.

@Ryan Moore During renovations we make sure to hide all the tools from view and close the drapes. 

Paint might hide alot of the super thin ones. 

I agree if the seller has nothing to hide what difference does it make to take 3 or 6 hours for an good inspection that’s protecting your interest.

I would want to know why before I make a decision....With the ease of sending money online and having an auto pay system each month pay your rent, there are very easy ways to pay your rent even when you are traveling or very busy or too occupied to drop off a check etc.Its a red flag for me....... a flag that they are so incompetent that they have to pay stuff way in advance or they spend it on stupid stuff and then end up broke...but the flip side is that you at least get the $$ while they have it, but don't expect that to last.....the "got no money" is coming....Red flag for new prospective tenants that want to pay WAY in advance....they are usually trying to hide something.....make you look past your screening stuff by bribing you up front with a roll of cash.....big red flagIf these are longer term tenants I would want to know why and then decide....also depends on how far out they are trying to pay....1-3 months maybe...longer, probably not