My friend owns a piece of land and there was a guard shack on the property. A homeless couple wanted to rent the guard shack. He took pity on them. He was just being nice. I’ll bet you’ve had something backfire when you were trying to be nice. We all have. My friend had his third-party management company do a lease for them and this couple started living in the guard shack. Later, the city found out and declares the shack is uninhabitable, so the management company gives the couple an eviction notice. But they don’t get out and keep living there.
Last Christmas, the couple was doing meth and smoking in bed and ended up burning the place down. They both got out, but she went back in for her purse and didn't make it back out. The state charged my friend, who is the nicest guy in the world, with manslaughter. And the lady’s family sued him. He had insurance, but insurance won’t cover this.
What went wrong? Most attorneys don’t properly envision the future. Basically, they don’t care if the structures they create cause a mess because they make their money cleaning up messes. Now my friend and his sons are probably going to lose the business and all of his real estate, and there isn’t a thing he can do about it now. I have met with him and his wife, and made a few suggestions, but once you are already in trouble, you can’t go back to fix asset protection. If you try to go back and do asset protection, the courts will simply undo everything and return it back to where it was when the problem occurred.
I am really upset about this, because with just a couple of steps that I go through in detail in the Accumulation and Preservation of Wealth System, his business would have been totally secure, and all of his other real estate could have also been protected.
Let me ask you, what is it worth to you to really be secure?