From a tax perspective, the main benefit of an S-Corp taxed entity is that it's only required to pay out a "reasonable" salary to shareholders, and the remainder can be paid as a dividend, which is not subject to self-employment taxes. 

LLCs that are thinly capitalized are more likely to be viewed as “shells,” thereby losing their capacity to shield the members from liability.or fails to maintain a separate identity from its owners ( using the business bank account for business purchases, maintaining separate books) Conversion of entities Assets for Personal Benefit:Another factor that poses a risk of piercing the corporate veil is the draining of entities assets (such as payments of large salaries to shareholder-employees) that leaves the entity with inadequate resources to pay its debts.

Warren Buffet said it far better than I ever could in this years letter to shareholders: "We use debt sparingly.

Banks are simply trying to maximize their returns for their shareholders as they are supposed to...

I was at the Berkshire shareholder meeting last year and someone asked Buffett and Munger if it's more difficult to start now.

These are private corportations that should just go belly up and let their shareholders take the loss.

When they go bad, shareholders and unsecured debt holders go frist, plus anyone with over 100,000 in the account, 50 cents on the doolar is the going offerProblem is the FDIC is about of cashGood old CASH FLOWING REAL ESTATE is the way to go right now

If your LLC's have multiple shareholders, then you are likely already required to be licensed, regardless of number of LLC's.

Brokerages aren't just real estate, they are businesses that bring in partners, shareholders that grow companies and sell their interests.Another family friend, John Q.

Your success is ulitimately determined by you, not corporate management or shareholders.