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What Real Estate Investors Need to Know from the Big Beautiful Bill
Real estate tax update: the Big Beautiful Bill explained—100% bonus depreciation, LLC strategy, and year-end planning.
Preparing Your Business for Sale – Four Key Steps Most Entrepreneurs Overlook
Selling your business is one of the biggest moves you’ll ever make. Yet most entrepreneurs aren’t prepared when buyers come calling. Discover four key steps to clean up your books, strengthen your team, and position your business for a smooth, profitable sale.
How Franchise Owners Can Legally Save Thousands
Many franchise owners are overpaying the IRS and missing out on key tax-saving strategies. Learn how smart legal structures like LLCs, S-Corps, and two-entity planning can protect your profits, reduce liability, and help you build long-term wealth, with guidance from the team at KKOS Lawyers.
Mat Sorensen’s Blog
Mat has been at the forefront of the Self-Directed IRA industry since 2006. He’s CEO of Directed IRA, a partner at KKOS Lawyers, a national speaker, a top-ranked podcast host, a best-selling author, and a self-directed retirement investor. Mat is a VIP Contributor at Entrepreneur and is an expert author at Cryptopedia.

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Mark J. Kohler’s Blog
Mark J. Kohler, M.Pr.A., C.P.A., J.D., is a best-selling author, national speaker, radio show host, writer and video personality for Entrepreneur.com, real estate investor, senior partner in the law firm Kyler, Kohler, Ostermiller & Sorensen, and the accounting firm of Kohler & Eyre, CPAs. Mark is a personal and small business tax and legal expert who helps clients build and protect wealth through wealth management strategies, as well as business and tax remedies often overlooked in this challenging, ever-changing economic climate. His seminars have helped tens of thousands of individuals and small business owners navigate the maze of legal, regulatory, and financial laws to achieve greater success and wealth.

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Estate Planning
Estate Planning Lessons from the Rich and Famous
We believe everyone needs to have an estate plan. Contrary to popular belief, an estate plan is not just for the rich and the powerful, and even people with little or no assets can benefit from having an estate plan. A properly prepared estate plan not only...
Minor Children and Guardianship Designation Decision-Making
Is there any decision more important than who will raise your children if you were to pass away? Every person with minor children should consider this question and should take a simple estate planning step to answer it. MAKING THE DESIGNATION The decision on who will...
The Trustee, Executor and Guardian: The Estate Plan Trifecta
Many people ask us on a regular basis 'who' is going to carry out their wishes when they're gone. All of us should have a Will or Trust, but the 'people' that are going to implement it can be a big question mark sometimes. It's common to be concerned about who will...
Business Formation
Why Your Partnership LLC Needs a Revocable Living Trust
Learn why every partnership LLC needs a revocable living trust to avoid probate, protect your business, and save on taxes. Discover how KKOS Lawyers can help you structure your estate plan for long-term success.
Tax-Smart Investing with Real Estate and Crypto
Real estate and crypto have more in common than you think. Learn how savvy investors are using LLCs and S Corps to save on taxes and protect their wealth.
LLC v. S-Corp – Which is Better?
LLC vs. S-Corp: Learn the tax, legal, and operational differences between these popular business structures-and how to choose the right one for your goals.
Tax Savings
Just Throw the Ball: How to Get Your Business Off the Ground
Deven L. Munns, Esq. Starting a successful business can be highly technical and knowing how to do it right can make or break your business. To start the business right, you need to: Come up with a business idea you think would make money. Determine what products or...
Side Hustle Income: Does a C-Corp Make Sense?
By Kevin L. Kennedy, Esq. Let’s say you have a day job working for someone else, but you’re also trying to start a side business. You hope that one day you can leave your ‘day job’ and work for yourself full-time. Maybe this sounds familiar to you. Your first...
CA’s New Statewide Rent Control Law
Lee Chen, Esq. On October 2, 2019, California enacted the AB 1482, representing the most comprehensive reform of California landlord-tenant laws in decades. The law, which essentially imposes “rent control” provisions for certain rentals in California, officially...