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Trust Your Land Trust Trustee
This post is exclusive to active Land Trust University students. Editor's Note: Trust Your Land Trust Trustee is an update of an article from the Land Trust Newsletter Archive in the Land Trust University. It is one example of the abundant information waiting there...
Corporate or an Individual Trustee
This post is exclusive to active Land Trust University students. In the Land Trust training classes I teach around the country, I am asked often, “Which is better, a corporate or an individual Trustee?” As with most issues in life, it depends. There are advantages and...
How is a Land Trust Taxed
"How is a Land Trust taxed?" I am often challenged on whether a Land Trust has to file a tax return or not. Some “professionals” insist that I am wrong when I say that a Land Trust does not file a tax return and does not obtain a FEIN number with the Internal Revenue...
The Liability of a Trustee
This post is exclusive to active Land Trust University students. Editor's Note: This article is republished from the Land Trust Newsletter Archive in the Land Trust University. It is one example of the abundance of information waiting there for LTU students to claim....
How to Choose Trustees
This post is exclusive to active Land Trust University students. I receive calls from people all over America asking me how to choose Trustees for their Land Trusts. Some of these people are my students and some are people who have found me on the Internet. Students...
Is a Land Trust Legal in Your State?
Just about every week I get a call or email from a student (or prospective student) asking me if it is LEGAL to form a Land Trust in their state? Oftentimes they have been told by their attorney, accountant, or title company that the use of a Land Trust in their...
Success Bullet Points to Start Your New Year
This post is exclusive to active Land Trust University students. The entire Planet is glad to see 2020 expire. Hopes for a better 2021 are high. When the vaccines work, we should see economic recovery and a return to some kind of a normal life. What does this have to...
Situs and Out-of-State Land Trusts
Why do I recommend to my students that they think about situs and out-of-state Land Trusts? In my Land Trusts Made Simple® home study course, I discuss the advantages of using an out-of-state trust to hold the title to the property in your state. Situs refers to the...
Tenancy-by-the-Entirety
In Illinois, Tenancy-by-the Entirety (TBE) is a form of holding title to real estate exclusive to a husband and wife. It can only be used on their personal residence. There is a Big Benefit to using TBE as a method of holding a title. Let me describe it this way. Your...
Checkbook Control and What I Learned
This post is exclusive to active Land Trust University students. The other day I was talking to my friend, Lee Hoffman, of Planned Giving Design Center, and said I was about to launch my course called The IRA Checkbook Control Trust: A Step-by-Step Guide. Lee’s site...