Welcome to BP Nation Shakeeta.You question seems to stem from the many gurus who preach about some program they sell which rarely works in the real word today.Land trusts are a huge red flag to banks and thus are not very effective to your success.Take the advice above and read some of the many forum topics on this subject.There are many ways to flip contracts with REO's other than a land trust.1.

If so, do you foresee this type of requirement spreading nationally?

The 7 federally protected classes are race, color national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap(disability).

There are national rates posted on the web, and often the local paper will run a chart with mortgage rates in the Sunday real estate section.The rate you get is going to be very closely tied to your credit score.

National debt is $450K for every man woman and child in USA.

The caveat here with the national recession being called was in the 1990's recession.

If they can provide just as good if not better a product as the national competitor.  

Those Marines died bravely regardless of their time on the battlefield--they still were protecting our nation as they recruited new members of the military into service.  

And the beauty of this is that the national average rental income for Self-Storage is roughly $1.20 per sf per month  vs.

I have a unique opportunity — my parents own a home in a National Historic Registry site.