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5 April 2016 | 17 replies
The properly structured Trust strategy isolates your assets where if the attorney wins a lawsuit against you or your LLC, they can’t get at your prized assets.
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13 May 2020 | 11 replies
I'm unsure if I should:1) list it as available starting in June (hoping we'll be in the clear by then), or 2) list it as available now, but include language that until further notice it is only available for essential workers or for Covid-19 isolation (see language I pulled from the Placer County website below) I imagine many people working from home in the SF bay area would love some isolation in the mountains...
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26 November 2014 | 15 replies
The main test is not going to be that expensive but performing an isolation test will be costly.
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23 September 2015 | 6 replies
The exterior however is less than attractive and I need a good solution that will not cause any water related damages.https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8cd8JbR5t64VUZJT...Hopfully you guys can see this once you sign into google.As you can see, the current siding around the old window is olive-ish aluminum siding.
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9 June 2020 | 2 replies
Do you have various other business interests that you're trying to keep isolated from each other?
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9 January 2022 | 13 replies
We have isolated wealth for retirement, taken care of "Care" issues, identified both long term and near term investments, and have identified "excess" wealth.- In Iowa the storage business shuts down from December through part of April.
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22 December 2007 | 11 replies
Thanks guys.I know there are some eternal optimists and isolated pockets of strength in the real estate market but it sounds like it could take a longer before we really know the extent of the problems if lenders are not foreclosing on properties they normally would due to lack of manpower, reworking bad loans, whatever.BTW Merrill Lynch took another huge hit due to the subprime mess after previously writing down assets.
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8 August 2013 | 35 replies
(We're not discussing seller financing, below market financing or assumable financing here, that's a whole another discussion vis-a-vis the relationship of value to below market financing.)What the Professor is saying is that real estate values have NOT increased in "real dollar", when you exclude inflation from that equation.Once upon a time, a long time ago in a distant land, the distance measured in a few miles, before the current real estate crash; I discovered several pockets of real estate that were somewhat isolated from market fluctuations in value.
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28 September 2013 | 2 replies
This might be done to circumvent resell seasoning requirements, or to conceal the purchase price in the public records.You have alot of equity in the first LLC (perhaps $200k+) and are creating a new LLC to spread out risk and better protect your net worth.One of the properties has high lawsuit risk for one reason or another and you want to isolate it.You want to make it difficult for someone (trial lawyer, your competition, etc.) to track your collective holdings.
25 November 2014 | 27 replies
Like options, seller financing and use of OPMStep eight: Work to develop better systems to pursue, attract, document, control, risk management (to control loss).Step nine: Take out or isolate profits.