I want to house hack a 3-4 unit in baltimore as way to get skin in the game and I’ve identified some really great neighborhoods at very affordable prices for my budget.

In my experience most title insurers  require a copy of the trust or at the very least the first few pages that identifies the Trustee and any successor Trustee(s), the section identifying the powers of the Trustee and the signature page. 

Having said all of that, my advice to you would be to evaluate it from a risk tolerance perspective and identify the anchors that will make it a good long term rental.

Your best bet:1) Identify the value you will bring to the relationship2) Look for someone with the funding who needs that value3) Form a partnership with that person to be the GP on the dealGood luck!

How do you go about identifying the area to buy?

option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=1 and accomplish your task without any hand holding.The limitation to this is you need to have a pattern to keep it repeatable and accurate. 

But, we would only have 45 days to identify a new property.

But again, check with a mortgage person and also look at all the documents signed at the first property’s closing.I guess it comes down to, can you say with a straight face when you bought the first property, that you really intended to occupy it for a while as your primary residence and something unexpected came up forcing you to buy the second property, or would a regular person look at the pattern of facts and conclude you never intended to stay in the first property at all, but only as a temporary stop before buying another property and moving out of the first one.In good times, when mortgages get paid, it probably doesn’t matter.

The most important area to identify is whether or not you have a deal at hand.

The best place to start is identifying what your long term goals for investing look like and work backwards from there.