You need to put together an overall marketing strategy using various methods, not just one.

Yes, I'm talking about a seller finding me through my own marketing methods.

So is that trust method the easiest way for me to protect myself?

Don't assume my method is the correct one :) It's what I'm doing but it might not be the right way.

Once you gather a database of investors, sending out email blasts with info on out of area RE investments is another useful method.

Remember to submit a payoff demand to escrow.If your profit is large, share some of it with the seller or use another method.

If the insurance is not escrowed with payments, just cancel the old, and get a new, as described above.As long as the asset/colllateral for the mortgage is insured, the lender is protected, they don't care what company you use, or who holds the title, especially if its in a trust.As long as the house is insured, payments are current, you'll have no issues.Sadly, many people THINK changing insurance causes issues with the lender and the title change.However, after YEARS of subject to investing myself, as well as thousands of discussions about this method, I have yet to have a single person back up that claim with proof.Besides, bottom line, at the moment, lenders have other issues more pressing than messing with a PERFORMING account/loan.When you get new insurance, make sure its fire and hazard, and includes liability, rental dwelling/non-owner occupied.

No seasoning issues with this method.

Buying sub to refers to keeping the loan in the "seller's" name and you, the buyer, "promising" to pay that mortgage on time.The only way this method works is if the loan is "worth" taking over, meaning that it is not some ARM or high interest adjustable loan and that there is enough equity remaining.

What is the most used method of determining ARV as accurate as possible?