Please check with your CPA and Attorney for purposes of Legal Consequences and Tax Consequences. Coming from experience all properties should be set to companies, and the main reason for people not wanting to do so is because certain mortgages. From the asset protection standpoint it adds an extra layer of protection, and inexpensive. You can login to the Secretary of States website and pay a fee, and you receive the certificate. You can give this certificate to the local title company; this ensures an extra level of insurance. Another main reason is doing this step can protect you from being targeted personally. In regards to that this is not 100% protective as there is ways to pierce the Corporate veil.
An example is if you own ten properties and someone injures themselves on one of your properties and wants to hold you personally accountable for the situation the attorney who is hired to assess the situation will research the owner of the properties. In which seeing they (you) are covered will avoid making this more of a dangerous situation.
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