The pure land trust or Title Holding Trust is really designed to keep ownership of real estate on a confidential and private basis.

Maybe less than with a pure rental, but some here will argue the expenses are the same for a lease option as for a pure rental.

Anyway, she said the ones that survived attached themselves to different city agencies, purely for survival and expanded into JV on city projects: Park and Recs, Metro, HUD/Fair-housing etc...Many still exits but are a fractured shell of what they once were.I asked her where is the funding/grants for new construct, she said there was none and or very little.

You should have no problem finding a bank that will give you credit for the expected rent if you can put 25% down as if it were a pure investment property, but then you are missing out on one of the benefits of house-hacking, as @Matt Slakey mentioned: getting a loan that allows you to put a lot less down.  

Expecting anything more is purely a pipe dream and is not commonplace.

This financing is purely asset based and understand foreign buyers’ situation.

What I meant was that although I will be living in one unit, I wanted to analyze it as if I were purchasing it purely as an investment property.

It was fraud pure and simple, some experienced appraisers confirmed it when they looked at it.OP, take it and run!

Example:In St Louis we have some great Pure Cash Flow play areas.  

We have grown our empire through pure rentals and turn or personal into a rental.You have lots of choices!