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Recs for business checking accounts and credit cards - can you have too many?

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What do most do in terms of keeping rental business out of personal finances? My eventual plan is to scale - do most have a single financial LLC with its own checking account and each rental LLC finances go through that one? Or do most larger investors keep a separate credit card and checking account for each LLC rental? Or do you have a checking account for each rental LLC, and a single business credit card? Each of the scenarios, I anticipate can be a headache for bookkeeping and have pros and cons.

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Hey @Michael Ghim, as far as financial account structure goes, think about what will work best for you in your day-to-day operations. Yes, having a bank account and credit card per property works great for bookkeeping as long as the accounts are used they way they are supposed to be used (no commingling). 

But, is this practical for you and your team if you have 50 properties? Probably not. That's a very large book of physical cards to carry around.

Whatever you go with, ensure it works for you and your team. It needs to be as simple and efficient as possible.

Some of our Clients get caught up in having these super complicated (fancy) entity structures for maximum protection. But, they don't abide by the structure in their day-to-day operations because it takes too much mental capacity to keep up with. This defeats the purpose of the liability protection they were going for in the first place.

So, again, think about your operations and envision what will work best for you.

Happy to discuss further.

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