Land Trusts

Land Trust Lesson 6 – The Director

By Mitch Stephen / February 20, 2016 / Comments Off on Land Trust Lesson 6 – The Director

In the last lesson I discussed the many ways that the Beneficial Interest of a Land Trust (a personal property interest) can be held. Many real estate investors choose to make their Limited Liability Company the Beneficiary of their Land Trust. Since the liability on the property held inside a Land Trust flows through to…

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Lesson 5 Beneficiary of your Land Trust

By Mitch Stephen / February 18, 2016 / Comments Off on Lesson 5 Beneficiary of your Land Trust

In the last lesson you learned all about Trustees and their role in the Land Trust structure. You also learned that picking the proper Trustee is VERY important and can help you structure a Trust that is hard to find, hard to serve and hard to sue. Our goal is not to avoid our just…

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Lesson 3 Land Trusts: The Deed in Trust

By Mitch Stephen / February 13, 2016 / Comments Off on Lesson 3 Land Trusts: The Deed in Trust

As a real estate investor you are accustom to seeing Deeds come and go during a transaction. Warranty Deeds and Quit Claim Deeds are often used to convey title from the person we are buying property from to ourselves (or our entities). In this lesson you will learn what the difference is between the deeds…

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Use an LLC as Beneficiary of Your Land Trust

By Mitch Stephen / February 12, 2016 / Comments Off on Use an LLC as Beneficiary of Your Land Trust

There are lots of ways to hold the Beneficial Interest in a Land Trust (i.e. individually, through another entity or via the Trustee of another trust). This lesson will concentrate on using a Limited Liability Company (LLC) to hold the Beneficial Interest in a Land Trust and the many benefits of this strategy.

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Lesson 2 Land Trusts – Ease of Transferability

By Mitch Stephen / February 9, 2016 / Comments Off on Lesson 2 Land Trusts – Ease of Transferability

The Ease of Transferability – See Lesson 2 Below One of the many benefits to using Land Trusts to hold title to real estate is the ability to transfer the beneficial interest easily.  Why is this important? Maybe you do not want the world to know that you have transferred ownership of a property. Maybe…

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