My wife kept scrupulously away from the family friend's family affairs except to sign the papers when needed.Looking at the situation from your dad's perceptive, if he only put your siblings down as trustees, which he can do, you will feel very hurt, left out, a situation I'm sure your dad is fully cognizant.

"A perception of a person's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, familial status, source of income, disability or medical conditions, or a perception that a person is associated with another person who may have any of these characteristics."

This thread alone has somewhat changed my perception on real estate investing in California.  

Victor Viyuoh Yeah it’s been interesting to see how neighborhoods have changed in L.A or the perception of them has changed and gotten so expensive .

I'm not saying this has any reflection on you or what you are wanting, Zachary, but that is usually the perception from the agent's point of view.Since this is true, many of us investors obtained our own license so that we aren't relying on others and can 'waste' our own time using the real estate tools first hand to help ourselves and others. 

I watched her mark and count all of her rent money because the devil is altering her perception so that 50's look like 20's and vice versa. 

I don't think this is a fair read of the site; nevertheless, perception is reality, and if you have nothing more entertaining to do than come here and read braggadocio, maybe you need some better hobbies :)

Then in this thread, there is discussion about the need to have partners to head off any perception that an investor would be using an LLC as an alter ego.Does that mean every LLC created needs partners to be effective?

Thanks all, just getting an idea of what other investors perceptions are on this topic.

There is a perception of a ranking of those in lending, pawnbrokers and title loan types are at the bottom, commercial lenders on top, much has to do with the barrier to entry into lending, it's pretty easy getting a pawnbroker license, it's pretty hard getting into commercial lending with lending authority.