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What to Be Aware of in the “Friends and Family” Round of Financing
You’re starting a new business or growing an existing one, and you need money – most new or growing businesses do. In that situation, it’s only natural to turn to the people you know the best and trust the most – your friends and family. Spend a few minutes on any...
What is a Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund?
What is a Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund? Here's the short version, it's a new break that allows you to re-invest gains from any assets (real estate, stock, etc.) into qualifying go-zone funds. You get both tax deferral and some tax reduction as a result of the...
Asset Protection and Your Short Term Rental
The explosion of the sharing economy and in particular short term rentals offers real estate investors a lucrative opportunity to generate increased cash flow. However, with new opportunities come with new risks and nothing can be further from the truth when it comes...
Learn the Definition of a Security – It Might Just Keep You Out of Prison
When it comes to raising capital in a way that keeps you on the right side of the bars, it’s essential to know whether what you are offering and selling really is a security.
Maximizing LLC Asset Protection and Charging Orders
LLCs are frequently used to hold assets because of the availability of charging order protection against outside liabilities. Both LLCs and corporations provide asset protection for “inside liabilities,” that is, if a liability is created inside by that entity (e.g....
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...
Your Estate Plan and its Supporting Cast: Mini-Me, Thor, The Office, and The Titanic
When most people hear about an estate plan, they normally associate it with a trust. Certainly the trust is the lead actor in the estate plan because the trust is designed to set forth the plan or instructions for what will happen to your assets in your trust upon...
California Supreme Court Makes It Harder to Call Your Worker a “Freelancer”
It seems like you can’t talk business at all these days without hearing something about the “gig economy.” For those unfamiliar with the term, the gig economy is a combination of two factors. It’s an environment where many people have a ‘side gig’ to make ends meet,...
Using the Tax-Free Sale of Home Exemption on Your Rental Property
One of the financial benefits to owning your home (personal residence) is that the gain from the sale of home can be tax-free up to $500,000 for married couples and $250,000 for single filers. To take advantage of this: You must have lived in the home for two years...
Court Strikes Down the DOL’s Fiduciary Rule. Should this Matter to You?
On March 15, 2018, a federal appeals court based in Dallas, TX struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) so-called “Fiduciary Rule” in the ongoing war waging within the financial services industry for the past two years. This Fiduciary Rule would have required...
