I also had a couple of shell ones set up just in case I needed to shift one property into one to isolate it.I didnt show my trust docs at closing, they were in a filing cabinet in my office.In order to get the beneficial interest info from someone that didnt want to give it, they'd have to depose the trustee and in order to do that they'd have to serve them.

The beauty of real estate investing is there is no one-size fits all for any investing discipline, simply isolate your goals and find the investment vehicle that is going to provide you the returns and lifestyle investment (time) for you to achieve those goals. 

@Steve FitzgeraldTrusts provide anonymity and the LLC a corporate veil that can isolate assets from other assets so one catastrophe can't take down the empire. 

I charge the same price on to manage these that I do on single family rentals, but yes every tenant is on their own lease.However I really only isolate that to a few communities. 

Hello Alexander,In most cases those items have low contributory value to the property's total value and they are difficult to isolate when using sales comparison approach.

Smaller more "isolated" areas that will open up due to the new transportation.

There may be an isolated pocket of good news here or there, but unfortunately the housing market is HORRIBLE (if you're looking at sales and price) throughout the United States.

See the items below (sorry copy and paste seems to have colored text in a weird way I can't fix):https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_dis...Noted at: 17708.03."...activities of a foreign limited liability company that do not constitute transacting intrastate business in this state include all of the following:(1) Maintaining or defending any action or suit or any administrative or arbitration proceeding, or effecting the settlement of those, or the settlement of claims or disputes.(2) Carrying on any activity concerning its internal affairs, including holding meetings of its members or managers.(3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions.(4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the limited liability company’s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities.(5) Selling through independent contractors.(6) Soliciting or procuring orders, whether by mail or electronic means or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.(7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, evidences of indebtedness, mortgages, liens, or security interests in real or personal property.(8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts and holding, protecting, or maintaining property so acquired.(9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within 180 days and is not in the course of a number of repeated transactions of a like nature.(10) Transacting business in interstate commerce.It also states in the section following the above excluded items:(c) Without excluding other activities that may not be considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state within the meaning of this article, a foreign limited liability company shall not be considered to be transacting intrastate business in this state merely because its subsidiary transacts intrastate business in this state, or merely because of its status as any one or more of the following:(1) A shareholder of a domestic corporation.(2) A shareholder of a foreign corporation transacting intrastate business.(3) A limited partner of a foreign limited partnership transacting intrastate business.(4) A limited partner of a domestic limited partnership.(5) A member or manager of a foreign limited liability company transacting intrastate business.(6) A member or manager of a domestic limited liability company.

West Oakland’s gentrification didn’t happen in isolation—in 1999 Oakland’s mayor at the time, Jerry Brown, rolled out his 10K plan, where he sought to add ten thousand new housing units to downtown.

Rent should never be used in isolation to value a property!