4 Great Ways to Protect Your Real Estate Assets

Owning rental properties is an excellent tool for building wealth, passive income, and ultimately achieving financial freedom (if that’s your goal). Of course, as much as I love it, it’s not without its risks.

As doctors and high-income professionals, we’re well aware of lawsuits and the risk that comes with liability. At times it might even feel like we have targets on our backs. So we need to protect ourselves.

There are quite a few different methods that many real estate investors use. Today, we’ll be looking at a few of the best and most common ways to protect and safeguard your properties and other assets.

4 Great Ways to Protect Your Real Estate Assets

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Insurance is by far the most common way to protect your assets, and it works pretty well. This doesn’t change someone’s ability to sue you, but it does cover you in that event.

1. Insurance

Basically, an anonymous trust leaves your name out of all the paperwork involved, making it virtually impossible for people to find you in connection with your property. Of course, not knowing who to sue makes a lawsuit very tricky.

2. Anonymity

The least expensive of all methods on this list, debt provides quite a bit of asset protection built-in. After all, if you don’t have a lot of equity, there isn’t much for a potential lawsuit to take away.

3. Debt

An LLC can add an even greater layer of protection. Basically, if you name your LLC as the trustee, your personal name won’t be listed anywhere in the paperwork of the trust or property ownership documentation.

4. LLC

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