Product Description

Protect Your Property—Before It’s Too Late

Real estate investors take risks. Homeowners, tenants, and even passers-by can sue investors like you, no matter what type of property you own. And if you’re not careful, you could lose more than the property involved in a lawsuit—even your other real estate assets. In our sue-happy society, protecting your assets and investments isn’t just a wise business decision—it’s imperative.

In The Real Estate Investor’s Guide to Corporations, LLCs, and Asset Protection Entities, attorney Richard Williamson explains how separating your investments into business entities can help prevent and limit costly lawsuits. Williamson provides investors with the pros and cons of each type of asset protection strategy and demonstrates how to create and maintain them.

Features:

· A detailed look at liability flow and how entities can protect you

· Complete guides to many different types of asset protection entities including LLCs, partnerships, and trusts

· Overview and advantages of the new series LLC for protection of multiple properties

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #255125 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
Richard T. Williamson is both an attorney and real estate investor.  He advises clients on asset protection and tax matters related to real estate and works with real estate professionals whose customers rely on them to give expert advice on tax consequences related to selling real estate.  He is very active in his profession having advised real estate investors in thousands of transactions over the past 20 years.  His areas of expertise are asset protection, capital gains tax planning, investment real estate, and estate planning.

Customer Reviews

Informative and Understandable!!
The Real Estate Investors Guide is very informative, easy to read, and understandable. I've read other books on asset protection, and often they provide such complex schemes for protecting your assets that there is just no way it applies to me. I liked that this book focused on the "normal" individual and clearly explained what LLCs and Corporations do, and how to use them.

The most comprehensive book on the subject
This is one of the most comprehensive books on the subject. I think that considering that this country is extremely litigious, protecting your assets is essential. The author says that there are approximately 70,000 lawsuits filed in America every day and the fastest-growing segments of litigation are real estate and premises liability lawsuits. While other books may be too technical, this one is written in language that is easy to understand. It covers various ways to hold properties such as individual ownership, general partnerships, limited liability companies, chapter C corporations, subchapter S corporations, and series LLCs. If you own more than one property, you might find series LLCs very cost effective. The author not only explains how these various methods protect you from litigation, but also how they affect your tax bill.

- Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market

Realty LLC book
For anyone thinking about getting into real estate investing - either by purchasing real estate to flip and sell, or purchasing real estate to fix up and rent out - this book really explains all the legal ways to deal with the tax benefits or penalties when owning real estate. I found it to be a great source of knowledge written in easy to understand terms (no so much legal speak) to be able to make an informed decision about which type of 'corporation' I should look into for my real estate goals.