Real Estate Holding Structures: One LLC Per Property, Series LLCs, Land Trusts, and Financing

Choose the right way to hold each property so you get real liability protection without losing financing, tax benefits, or your mind.

Who it is for: Landlords with one to twenty properties, in one state or several.
Runtime: 55 minutes

Pre-order: this course is in development and appears in your portal the day it is released. Buy 5 or more and every course is 30% off.

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What you receive

Property Holding decision tree
Deed Transfer and Lender Notice checklist
Per-Property Entity Cost Calculator (Excel)
Insurance Coordination checklist
Multi-State Holding Structure diagram in the house style
The narrated lesson. 55 minutes, cued to the deck, with chapter markers by lesson. Emailed to you the day it publishes, at no extra cost.

What the course covers

01The goals: tenant claims, separation between properties, privacy, and the estate plan5 min
02The options: one LLC each, one LLC for several, series LLCs, land trusts, and insurance alone10 min
03Tax neutrality: why moving a rental into your LLC changes nothing on your return, and when it does6 min
04Financing: the due-on-sale clause, the exceptions, and how lenders actually behave8 min
05Transfer taxes, reassessment, title insurance, and the insurance policy that must be updated6 min
06Worked example: four rentals in two states, structured, deeded, insured, and filed9 min
07Tricks of the trade: the out-of-state holding LLC, transferring after the refinance, and the umbrella that never goes away6 min
08Mistakes and traps: the transfer that voids the title policy, the LLC with no bank account, and the homestead you should not move5 min

How it fits: Requires 1.1 and 5.2. Pairs with 6.6 and 1.5.

The standard every course holds

A narrated lesson of 45 to 60 minutes, produced as audio
A designed slide deck you download and keep
A computational workbook that runs the actual legal tests
A toolkit of checklists and protocols
A legal authority appendix carrying the two-pass vetting protocol

Written for a diligent reader with no legal education. Professionally narrated using a studio voice model of Brian T. Boyd. The course is recorded instruction, not a live consultation.

Where this course sits

Track 6: Structuring Business and Estate Architecture

This course is one step in a track built around a single outcome. See the full build order and the other courses that get you there.

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Educational material from the private client curriculum of Brian T. Boyd. This is legal education for a general audience, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by purchasing, viewing, or using it. Tax outcomes depend on your facts and your state.