If they can't see what you own in public records then the only way they'll know is if you were already involved in a legal case and the court finds a reason to subpoena the trust.

In many areas eviction hearings are easy to gather public info.  

Karen, public advertising for securities (that is what we are talking about) is a violation of SEC laws and regs, but as Don stated, it is done all the time.Certainly parties can contact you to ask about investing in a project of yours, they initiated the contact so perfectly legal.When you have situations where you need multiple parties to fund one deal, you can fractionalize the note (there are rules involved and should always be done with a properly licensed broker to originate it) or you can form an LLC or other entity and each money partner has a limited share.

The general public usually cannot.

You may refer to IRS publication 590, pages 40 & 41 as well as Section 408 of the IRS code.You must keep in ind that an IRA, self directed or not, is a "seperate entity" from you.

It's all public information waiting for you to dig in!

As most of you know majority of publicly traded corporations and Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware due to it's asset protection and tax friendly laws.

I was doing work in public records where I saw your name come up in regards to a situation.  

Should be public information records, but I would retain an attorney to do so for possible legal issues.Also see if their local and or State returns might be availble under public records.

Attempting to find properties at the court house is also what I prefer, but I drive by some areas for other purposes too and the public records won't tell me about the property, if it's vacant, etc.