When I was in school, we had an Eaglet trainer that we used as the club trainer. A couple of us built it over 2 weekends, and it flew great and took a lot of abuse. The kit was almost the "drop bottle of glue into box and shake, remove airplane" easy. This was back before laser cutting, but the kit had some of the best fitting parts I'd ever seen.

I've never seen an LT-25, but I'm sure it's a great flying plane, the LT-40 sure is.

There's a guy at my field that was flying something that looked a lot like a Great Planes PT-25. It was an old plane, beat up, and probably kit built (was there ever an ARF of this one), but it flew very very well, even in some high winds.

(yes, I know the OP already bought the LT-25, just adding stuff for anyone else who might be looking for a smaller trainer)