I will advise you to take OgNasty since he's the most trusted person in this forum.
If anyone (from the escrows) is the most trusted person around here, then it is Blazed.
If two people have someone to act as an escrow, what steps do you take to trust the escrow there using if say you decide to go with their escrow?
Review their reputation and history of trades.
Also, is it easy to get an escrow?
It takes a single PM in the right format to someone e.g. me (given that the deal is *acceptable*).
I saw some recommendations on some reputable people in here. I don't have the link on me right now, but there was another post in here with a link of a list of people and I have emailed 2 and have not received any responses.
Don't use email, use PM.
I'm a newbie so only looking to say buy $50.00 at a time so not sure if I'm not of interest because I don't want to buy a lot at once (?). I'm a newbie so I'm not sure about some of this stuff.
You should look for a free or very cheap escrow then. However, if you are dealing with a buyer with a lot of reputation on localbitcoins, then I don't see a need to use escrow (especially since you'd be doing $50 at a time).