Thursday, September 6, 2007

Assest protection tips

Tonight, I went to a real estate seminar which taught the subject on assets protection. I thought it was an excellent information and want to share all of you what I learnt tonight

  1. Sole, Joint Venture, Teannet In common are bad way to hold title
  2. General partnership is the worst way to hold title. You may lose your personal assets if your partner get sued! Double liability!
  3. Land trust offer no assets protection
  4. LLC or LP is the most recommended way to hold title.
  5. Two kinds of attack: A) Tenant fell in your property and sue you B) You had bad car accident and get sued
  6. LLC can protect you from attack B, but not attack A!
  7. LLC is most recommended to be formed in Nevada or Wyoming. These two states has the best state law in the property owner's interest.
  8. You should buy a Umbrella insurance policy to cover your personal liability.
  9. Consider putting your brokerage account under LLC instead of your own name to shield against potential lawsuit
  10. After transferring your title from personal to a LLC, don't forget to inform the insurance company for the change
  11. Use 1 LLC to hold 1 property in the state, and have a central LLC manage each individual LLC. You're the ultimate manager of this one central LLC
  12. Debt is good way to discourage creditors.

For more information, I'll recommend you to visit the speaker for tonight's seminar www.sutlaw.com Garrtt Sutton is very knowledgble real estate attroney.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow, those are new and interesting topics for me, but if i do not have too much assets i think i might not need that.