Plenty of charlatan docs, lawyers, clergy, politicians, police, bankers.

***I know people are not lawyers and I will not take any advice as legal advice.

As for lawyers and CPA’s I can’t speak to that because I am not a lawyer or a CPA.

Not a lawyer, but I'd imagine the answer to the question of does the seller have to take highest and best offer is contained in the their short sale agreement with the bank. 

I need to get a good lawyer Thanks in advance .

Most of the companies helping with act 20 (accounting firms / lawyers) will give free consultations, but watch out, most want to charge lots of money to actually do the application (I paid $7000 for advice and 12500 for setting up the corp / doing the application) which most of it was a waste).

Kelly Bellini you need to physically go the the listing agent's broker of record and file a complaint immediately against the agent .Tell the broker exactly what happened and see what they say about it.Take you agent with you to explain the run around you have been put to suffer through and threaten legal action if you can't get the deposit money back.Have a lawyer on standby to take over if they try to duck and dodge you.

Talk to a lawyer on that, but I think the idea is a great one and I may have to try it!  

That's why I'm looking for one in UT - or, really, any other state where land trusts are (more) common.I shall therefore rephrase my question:Does anybody can refer me to a lawyer in the US that can draft legal docs for a land trust while also being located in a jurisdiction where setting up such a land trust is common?

We now have a CPA (referred from a BP member), a lawyer and an agent on our team.