Dec. 9, 2025

Why Your Rental Property Should Be Owned by an LLC

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Today we’re diving into a topic every real estate investor—big or small—needs to understand: Should your rental property be owned by an LLC?

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Good afternoon, Michiganders, and welcome back to Tuesday with Tom

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Michigan's Only podcast, where we talk about estate planning, the

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state settlement, and everything in between. As always, I'm your host,

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Tom Doyle, a state planning attorney, lifelong Michigander, and your

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guide to planning for the future. Will a brief recap

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of our last episode, The I r S announces increased

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gift and a state tax exemption amounts for twenty twenty six.

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So if you're concerned.

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About gift taxes or federal estate taxes, you're wondering how

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much you can give away this year next year without

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having to worry about gift taxes, I invite you to

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listen to my last episode, well today's show. Today's show,

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we're going to be talking about why your rental property

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should be owned by an LLC. It's a topic that

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is important if you own rental property or you're considering

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owning rental property. And the short answer isn't really why

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it should be owned because the short answer to that

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is generally in most cases yes, But the better answer

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is why, and that's what I will be exploring today.

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But please remember what I'm about to discuss is as

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always meant to be for educational purposes, is not intended

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to be legal advice. You need to work with your attorney,

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your financial advisor, and your tax advisor to determine what

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is appropriate for you and your planning. Why your rental

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property should be owned by an LLC, Well, start with

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what an LLC is and why it matters. An LLC

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if you're not familiar with it, that stands for limited

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liability company. It's a business entity that you create that

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can own things. So you can create an LLC that

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owns a business, you can create an LLC that owns

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real estate. And in this case, what we are talking

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about is an LLC that is created to own your

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rental properties. And why would you do that? Well, think

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of the LLC this way. It's really like building a

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legal firewall. What you're doing is you're taking a rental

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property that is in your name and you're changing it

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so that it will then be owned by your LLC.

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So if someone sues your rental business, or if a

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tenant gets hurt on the property, and that's the most

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likely scenario that we are already always talking about, ask yourself,

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if somebody gets hurt on the rental property.

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Who gets sued? Well, right now, if.

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You own the rental property, you are the one who's

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going to get sued.

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However, if your.

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LLC owned the rental property, then your LLC is the

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entity that is going to get sued. And why is

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that important? Well, if you get sued, everything that you

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own is potentially at risk, your home, your personal savings,

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your personal investments, other assets that you might have. But

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if the LLC gets sued, only what the LLC owns

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is at risk, which in this case is the apartment

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or the home that is owned by your LLC. So essentially,

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without the LLC barrier, you're personally on the hook for

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anything that goes wrong. So the basic concept of having

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the LLC is to create a firewall, if you will,

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between yourself and your LLC and thereby protect your assets.

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And so, I mean, let's be.

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Honest, Rental real estate can certainly be profitable. A lot

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of clients have rental properties that we deal with a

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lot of times clients might inherit properties from parents and

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they concern consider changing those into rental properties. But you

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also have to be aware that having a rental property

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has risks.

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That go along with it.

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Maybe it's now it's wintertime, it's December, it's icy out there,

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it's cold. A tenant slips and falls on the icy

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steps on your rental property, you will get sued unless

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that rental property is owned by the LLC. Or maybe

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you're going to have some work done on your rental

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property and a contractor gets injured by maybe repairing your roof,

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or you have a fire, maybe someone gets hurt in

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your property because of the fire, or maybe you have

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fire that damages a neighbor's property. Another example commonly is

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a tenant's guests. So you've got tenants, it's a holidays,

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they have guests over, and somehow they get hurt on

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your properties. Well, without an LLC, your personal bank accounts

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and assets could now be targets in recovering any judgment

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that would be entered against you in a loss. So essentially,

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the concept behind having the LLC is to limit assets

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that are owned by the LLC to simply the rental

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property itself, so that in that case, if there was

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a judgment entered against your LLC, the only thing that

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is at risk in that LLC is the rental property itself.

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Now for some people and not for everybody, though, having

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your property owned by an LLC does give you a

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little bit of personal privacy protection because in that case,

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it's going to be the LLC's name that shows up

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on the deed. So anybody doing a public record search

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is not going to find you're the owner of the property,

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but it's in fact going to find that your LLC is.

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The owner of the property.

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So in that case, you are generating or creating a

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little bit of privacy protections for yourself. For some people,

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that's an important consideration of any estate plan that they

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put together is maintaining their privacies. So there's some of

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the additional I guess advantages that can come about by

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having the LLC. It is a pass through, at least

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in Michigan, pass through as far as taxes are concerned.

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So contrast that with a corporation. You could have a

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corporation that would own your rental property, but now you

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might be subject to double taxation where the corporation is

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being tax on income and then you're being taxed as

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a shoulder shareholder.

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On distributions to you.

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Well, an LLC is what's considered a pass through taxation entity,

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so that any net income or loss at the end

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of the year is going to appear on your personal

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tax return, which is a way that you end up

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avoiding taxation which would occur if you had a corporation.

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Another consideration for you there was part of your overall

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estate plan is when it comes time now to transfer

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if you will, interests.

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In the LLC.

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Maybe you've got an LLC created and what you want

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to do is now gift part of the LLC to

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children as part of an estate planning structure, or maybe

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at the time of your death the LLC is going

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to be distributed out to multiple children. Well, you can

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make that cleaner by having the ownership of the property

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in an LLC by appropriate documentation. There's another advantage that

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we can do with LLCs in Michigan, and that is

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we can transfer LLCs upon our death without them having

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to go through probate and without even having to have

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a trust. So you can have a tod of your

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LLC similar to if you think of investments, or maybe

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you've got transfer on death provisions on your investments, or

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transfer on death provisions on a bank account, whatever happens

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to be. And I have had previous episode of Tuesday

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with Tom where I do talk in more detail on

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how the tod or transfer on death works with an

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LLC in the state of Michigan. Now, something though, if

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you already have property and you are now thinking about, hey,

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what if I take my existing property and I change

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my existing property so that it is going to be

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owned by NLLC. Well, if you have a mortgage on

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the property, you've got to be very careful because you

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can still transfer ownership of property that has a mortgage

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to your LLC, but in doing that, you might run

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a foul of any do on sale clause that is

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in your mortgage, and so you'd have to make sure

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you're checking with your bank to be sure that that's

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not going to be a problem with you if you

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want to look at transferring your existing property into LLC.

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Another concern.

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Another concern though, is this in Michigan, in many cases

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we're dealing with what we would have capped property taxes,

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where property taxes are not being increased if you will

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until there's a transfer of the property. Well, generally speaking,

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in Michigan, transferring your property from you to an LLC

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is likely going to be considered an uncapping event, and

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so there's a whole analysis that one has to go

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through relative to property taxes. Now, let's say you have

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more than one property, and this is a question that's

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always asked of as Tom, I've got five homes, and

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I understand the concept of creating the LLC and the

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advantage of creating the LLC. Do I need one LLC

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or should I have multiple LLCs? So let's think about that.

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If you've got five properties in one LLC and there

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is a judgment entered against that LLC and somebody is

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going to try collecting on that judgment, now they're going

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to be looking at collecting that judgment against what five properties.

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Those are the properties that are all owned by the LLC.

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On the other hand, if you were to create five

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separate LLCs with each LLC only owning one property, you

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are limiting the exposure of the properties to just want

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and so that's part of the analysis that you have

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to go through when you're looking at having more than

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one LLC when you've got multiple properties. Now, sometimes it's

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not as big of an issue. Let's say you have

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fully financed and you really don't have equity.

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In your other properties.

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You might consider not going with multiple LLCs, depending upon

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long term what your overall plans are with the apartments

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or the buildings that you are going to be maintaining

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and keeping for a period of time, and certainly you

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have to it's a cost benefit analysis.

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In the end.

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There are certainly going to be costs in setting up

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your LLC. Somebody is going to be paying an attorney

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normally to have the LLC created, and whatever operating agreement

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is going.

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To be needed.

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You will have in Michigan in annual reporting fees to

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the State of Michigan, it's.

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Not very much.

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Twenty thirty dollars in that ballpark is what you're going

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to be paying to the State of Michigan. But again

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be careful, as I mentioned before, you might have an

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uncapping of property taxes and that itself might cause a problem.

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I've got a client that I'm working with right now,

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and it seemed very simple.

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They said, well, we're just going to create an LLC

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and we're going to transfer the property in the LLC

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and then we're going to distribute out interest in the

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LLC to our children, which sounded so easy to do.

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Create the LLC, have a deed prepared for the property

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transfer it until until they reviewed it with their tax

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advisor and discovered that doing that would be uncapping property taxes.

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And this happened to be property that they have owned

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for a very long time that has a very low

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for property tax purposes a tax value in uncapping the

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property taxes in that case would be a tenfold potential

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increase in the property taxes. So you do there are

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some certain things that you have to be analyzing. And

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another thought is you always we always start when we're

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talking with clients. Even if you're going to look at

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having an LLC, you always want to start with insurance though,

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because you want to make sure that in the front

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you are adequally ensured if there was a claim to

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be made against you or a claim to be made

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against your LLC. So there's a whole insurance issue that

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needs to be analyzed as well. But the LLC is

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an additional benefit of trying to protect your assets in

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the event that there is not adequate insurance to cover

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the loss.

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So owning your mental property through an.

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LLC can be a simple, most effective state that you

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can do to protect your wealth, to reduce your liability

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and operate it like a true business. Now you have

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to be mindful though, when I say operate it like

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a true business. You have to treat it as a

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separate legal entity. So you can't just be paying your

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own expenses out of the LLC using your own checkbook.

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For the LLC.

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You have to set it up so it has its

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own checkbook. You have to set it up so accounting

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is appropriate for that LLC, because if you don't, if

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you choose not to treat the LLC as a separate entity,

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in the case the LLC does get sued, you might

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find a situation where the judgment creditor is able to

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what we call pierce the corporate veil, which is essentially

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going to court and saying, hey, judge, they didn't treat

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it as a separate legal entity, so we shouldn't have

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to treat it as a separate legal entity, and we

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should be able to go through the LLC and get

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the assets of the individual. So you need to make

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sure you're treating it as a separate LLC.

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The other thing you need to do.

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Though, and here's where people have problems with the LLC,

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is let's say that the furnace goes out in the

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middle of the night and you get a phone call

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that the furnace has gone out in the middle of

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the night, and you say, hey, I will go over

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and I'll fix the furnace. Well, if the properties owned

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by an LLC, but you're the one that goes and

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fix the furnace and because of what you did, the

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furnace blows up.

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of the LLC because you don't own it, but you

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will get sued as the person who did the work,

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who negligently repaired the furnace and cause the furnace to

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blow up. So one of the things you have to

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be very careful about when you set up these LLCs

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and you put properties into them, you have to be

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very careful about and mindful about you personally can't be

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doing any work on that property that might be able

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to expose you personally for the liability that you did.

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So there's going to be another cost associated because in

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that case, what you really need to do is call

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a furnace company and have them come and repair it

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so that you're not the one who's making the repairs.

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So some things to think about. But overall all, look

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at and consider if you've got a rental property, should

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you have an LLC, And if you'd like some help

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in that regard, if you think you might want to

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set up an LLC, look at transferring your property over

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into it. It's certainly something that amand and I can

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help you out with. Now, once you do create the LLC,

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let's say that your overall estate plan includes a trust.

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what you can do is you can transfer ownership of

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the LLC, the membership interest in the LLC to your trust,

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so that the trust owns it. But the trust is

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not going to be exposed to liability, just as you

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would not be exposed to liability because the LLC is

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still providing a barrier between yourself and the LLC, creating

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that firewall that is still going to be in place

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even if you transfer ownership of the LLC into your trust.

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So again, if you'd like some help on that, talk

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to your tax advisor. Make sure you figured out whether

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or not you've got tax issues that are involved. Sometimes

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you might have property that you've already depreciated and now

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you're going to transfer into LLC, Sometimes you might have

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to have some recapture of the depreciation. So there's a

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number of things that are going to have to be

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analyzed in determining whether or not you're going to take

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existing property and transfer that property into your LLC. Of course,

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amand and I, aside from whether or not you have

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rental properties, A man and I would be honored to

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help you protect the people you love, whether that means

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creating a new estate plan for you, or updating and

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existing one, or guiding you through perhaps the estate settlement

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process in the event that someone that you are caring

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for has died and your now tasked with settling that estate,

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and we try to make it easy as possible.

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