Some lawyers will even advise not to have anything related to your name in the title of the living trust to get better anonymity.

If it's mixed in with your deposits and reserve funds, you may accidentally spend money you shouldn't have.An LLC is useful for two things: anonymity and legal protection.

Anderson said you are not required to send in your certificates, but then you may not have protection in a judgment, which is the main function of the WY holding LLC (along w/ anonymity).

Typically the publicly available information is anonymous - property X at civic address Y sold in 2009 for $Z and is presently assessed at $AA.Additional information is often available - (used by real estate brokers, lawyers, and municipalities) - via a paid subscription.

I see way too many people spend thousands of dollars setting up these crazy entity structures thinking they are Jeff Bezos but at the end of the day there is no such thing as anonymity and asset protection is based significantly more on you and how you manage than any entity structure.For example, the easiest way to break any LLC protection is self-managing your properties.  

Not much protection but gives a layer of anonymity.

It gave me some anonymity and was part of what I used to get his wise counsel.

The two main reasons I have seen investors go out of their way to form an LLC in another state is either for the state's advantaged LLC laws (example: anonymity in Wyoming,) or access to an entity that is not available in their own state (such as the Series LLC.) 

So, that's where your anonymity and protection begins.The trust should then form an S-Corp.

Matt honeyford is a jerk who sends rude, inappropriate, “anonymous “ letters to homeowners insulting them.