Archives for “Asset Protection”


As real estate investors - wholesalers, short-sales experts, rehabbers, landlords - we will use a vehicle in our real estate investing business dealings. Whether it's ...

Creating a legal entity for your start up  real estate investing business will establish much-needed separation between you and your business. Shielding your personal assets ...

How badly do you want to be wealthy?  Enough to change your habits from those of the middle class (i.e. "I got a raise" equals ...

Tax evasion may seem tempting for those who feel that they are being taxed to death, but it is not the best solution for tax ...

California Land Trusts

Several months ago a lady from Chicago called my office and wanted to talk about a big mess she was in with her mother's property. ...

Asset protection law is one area in the law that is critical to your financial survival. Asset protection is a wide body of law. It ...

Smart real estate investors use a Land Trust to hold title to their investments. The Land Trust is the best entity for privacy and ...

I have clients come to me all the time and they’ve gotten one story from one attorney and another story from a different attorney and ...

Odds are, there’s an important document or two that you know you should have, but that you just haven’t gotten around to getting yet. Check ...

It’s bad enough when a child dies, but having their identity stolen months or years after their death can bring up the entire old trauma ...

50 Reasons to Use a Land Trust By: Randy Hughes Have you ever thought about using a Land Trust to hold title to your real estate investments? ...

When a real estate investor thinks of asset protection the LLC is the first entity that typically comes to mind. As it should ...

Land Trusts - Reasons NOT to Use Them As you know by now, I am a strong proponent of the use of a Land Trust (LT) ...

Land Trusts - Reasons NOT to Use Them As you know by now, I am a strong proponent of the use of a Land Trust to ...

Real estate investors who are concerned about privacy of ownership and asset protection have long used the Limited Liability Company (LLC) as a beneficiary to ...

For years I have taught real estate investors to put their investment property into a Land Trust for a multitude of benefits. The next question ...

Real Estate LLC Allows For Financial and Tax Advantages. Here Are The Pros and Cons of Putting Your Real Estate Into An LLC...

Often times when two unmarried people buy real estate together their attorney will recommend that they hold title "jointly." This means that they will both ...

How could this have happened? This Could Be You.. For over six years, Jerry has been a victim of identity theft. The credit bureaus have placed ...

Why do real estate investors need to use land trusts (LT)? Let's be straight forward with this article. You have worked very hard to accumulate ...

What Is Asset Protection?

It is rather obvious that asset protection means to protect your assets from creditors and would be litigants. A better definition might be pre-litigation planning ...

The subjects of Privacy and Asset Protection are complex issues. Most people today just “throw their hands in the air” and give up. New laws ...

Dear Reader, I got an e-mail from a fellow reader last week. He was in a bit of a bind. He'd decided to purchase a pre-construction ...

You know you need to form an LLC to minimize your risk and protect your personal assets when investing in real estate. But did you ...