I chose the house because it played with in my grand house hacking/vacation rental plan.

The reason simply being Tacoma prices took a heard beating in the downturn and still lagging 2007 peaks.The people that live in Tacoma (again minus North) are people making 30-50k grands a year, looking for clean place to live, without violent crimes.

I did record the Grand Deed with just the name of the land trust alone.

If parents have to give equity and legal structures for kids and grand kids to allow them to spend time, that’s the first red flag right there of issues to come.

Of all of the programs/offices Grand Prairie Housing is by far the easiest to work with!

It took a grand total of 20 minutes for me to follow up.

Wow, that's quite the story.Not saying what he did was right, again, regardless of what "everyone else" was doing... but in the grand scheme of things, his transgressions as compared to those of others...As the saying goes, life just isn't fair is it.

The best deals are during grand opening sales for new units - there's another one opening in a few months about 40 miles from here.

Another alternative, if you go it alone, is to  buy from wholesalers who are adding $10,000 or so the price of a property, or you can be the one who finds the sellers through Homevestors ads and picks up the extra ten grand. 

I primarily work with investors and I've wholesaled 5 lots in the past 3 months and made a few grand each $2-5K.