\r\n P1 - Course Overview\r\n0:00\r\nWell, hi, everybody. This is John Jay Singleton, And I want to do an overview of the type of types of services that I provide to people.\r\n0:07\r\nI know that when people hear my interviews, they call me, and we discuss their specific situation.\r\n0:14\r\nAnd then the conversat... <\/div>\r\n
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P1 - Course Overview
\n0:00
\nWell, hi, everybody. This is John Jay Singleton, And I want to do an overview of the type of types of services that I provide to people.
\n0:07
\nI know that when people hear my interviews, they call me, and we discuss their specific situation.
\n0:14
\nAnd then the conversation usually leads into the question of, what is it that you do, because they don\u2019t have titles next to my name. I\u2019m not a bar member, I\u2019m not an accountant, but I can speak the language. And I can use some of the information to solve people\u2019s problems. So, I\u2019ll just tell you from the beginning.
\n0:30
\nUm, I started doing this work, which I\u2019ll describe as best as I can In the early nineties, in college.
\n0:38
\nAnd I was just looking for a business to get into.
\n0:41
\nAnd I had, while I was in college, I had developed a game strategy, a game series for, that I could use to teach fourth graders, high school algebra, And my, my professor challenged me to actually produce the material and make it into something that would be, that I could go into production with.
\n1:03
\nSo, I did that, and I went to the schools, and I taught the fourth graders, High school algebra, And the teachers were surprised. And it was pretty clever trick.
\n1:11
\nAnd then I did some more research too, see if it was worth getting into. And I decided not to do that, that time, because I felt like there was too much competition I didn\u2019t want to. I didn\u2019t wanna get into that market, although probably would have done well. I just, just wasn\u2019t the thing I wanted to do. I wasn\u2019t passionate about it.
\n1:27
\nAnd then I started looking at consumer debt.
\n1:30
\nUm, and, of course, I had, No, I had, at that time, no legal training.
\n1:35
\nI have, still, no formal legal training, But, what I was able to do, was read.
\n1:39
\nSo, I would go in, uh, look at consumer debt cases in no other place. But what, the court system, right, so I would go into the Court, and I would sit there and listen to attorneys, argue over cases.
\n1:51
\nAnd I realized there were some, a big gap in consumers responding to complaints to lawsuits. So, people that had credit card debt would just not show up.
\n2:01
\nAnd I thought, Wow, if they would just do a couple of things, because I got myself a copy of the rules, and I read them, and I thought, Well, if they could just do a couple of things.
\n2:09
\nOr if they just knew a couple of things that would be so much easier, they could probably get themselves out of a lot of the, A lot of the cases, a lot of the situations make it better.
\n2:16
\nAnd as I did more research, I discovered that there was a huge industry profiting from People being in debt, and I thought, well, that\u2019s really just exploiting people, like I does.
\n2:27
\nI just didn\u2019t think of it as a big system.
\n2:29
\nI just thought it was consumers He couldn\u2019t pay and then they had a problem And then I realized the whole system was designed to create consumer debt push down on people, make it convenient, make it palatable so to speak, long term debt, lifetime debt, and then exploit people.
\n2:48
\nSo anyways, I reverse engineered the collection process. I got the books. I studied the law. I said the collection procedures and more importantly, it\u2019s not about really the law. It\u2019s about what the system will do It\u2019s about what people will do.
\n3:01
\nFor example, people believe that filing a bankruptcy is going to solve their consumer debt problems.
\n3:08
\nAnd really, what bankruptcy has come out to be in the last 15 or 20 years is nothing but a payment plan.
\n3:16
\nSo, anyways, we\u2019ll get into that.
\n3:20
\nSo my focus has been on, in the very beginning, back in the early nineties, it was on consumer debt, and I started out with IRS cases. That was, I got, I got the worst kinds of cases. My first case was, you know, I had to travel to the client\u2019s house, and we spent a few days over there.
\n3:34
\nAnd I, it took me about a month, and we finally got the IRS to agree that there was no debt actually. And they had, in the meantime they had before, that they had taken all this property.
\n3:44
\nThat\u2019s why that\u2019s why we were called and uh, anyways, we got all the property back and this sort of thing.
\n3:50
\nAnd I learned so much in that case, and I realized there were some really sinister things going on in consumer debt. I mean, it just got so much more involved than I originally had believed.
\n4:00
\nAnd so, so I went from consumer debt to small business debt.
\n4:06
\nSo I started working with people that had S type corporations, Subchapter S, things like this. And a lot of them were being destroyed by the IRS or too much debt.
\n4:17
\nAnd so, what I would do is organize a way where the company, or the individual could restructure the way he receives this future cash flow.
\n4:28
\nSo, as paycheck or business income or something, Something like that, where it would be unattach goal, and that was my thinking. So, in my early days, when I was looking at IRS situations, I used to write letters to the IRS and make legal arguments, and things like this to try and solve a person\u2019s situation.
\n4:46
\nAnd I realized that the iris didn\u2019t really care, that there\u2019s no one there that\u2019s really, you know, even understand a lot of these things.
\n4:53
\nThey\u2019re just there to push some buttons and send letters out, So what I figured is that, it, the client, would be protected as, if he didn\u2019t have anything.
\n5:02
\nSo, it\u2019s kinda tricky because, you know, people have stuff, people have cars, and boats, and land, and houses and jobs, and they\u2019re pension funds and they have entitlements, and stock, and all these things.
\n5:14
\nSo, over the years, I had developed different strategies to solve different problems and basically it works like this, I look at the worst-case scenario.
\n5:25
\nLooking at Title 26, OK, which is the Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 of the United States Code, there\u2019s a section in there and I\u2019m giving out the sections Because I want you guys to be able to research some of the things I\u2019m telling you. so you can, you can validate what I\u2019m telling you.
\n5:41
\nSo, Section 603, 1 in paragraphs AMB.
\n5:44
\nNow, everyone ignores paragraph eight.
\n5:47
\nGet to that, we get to that sometime, but Paragraph B basically says that the IRS can take the property of the taxpayer if he owes money and hasn\u2019t paid.
\n5:56
\nOr it can take the rights to property.
\n5:59
\nSo, I thought that was really interesting, because the IRS administratively can take someone\u2019s property, and they can take the rights to the has to the property.
\n6:05
\nSo, I thought, well, if I can divest his exclusive rights over the property, then the IRS couldn\u2019t legally take it, even if the IRS could see what was going on. And the way we do it is like this, OK, let me give you an example of how not to do it.
\n6:20
\nIf you\u2019re if you have cash flow, someone\u2019s paying you money, and you would owe the IRS or you\u2019re a creditor. There\u2019s a judgement Lien.
\n6:26
\nAnd you owe a third party creditor, but someone\u2019s paying you cash for a job you\u2019re doing, let\u2019s say, the creditor, the IRS, whoever it is, has the right to take the money before it gets paid to you.
\n6:38
\nThere\u2019s different.
\n6:39
\nThere\u2019s different types of, let\u2019s call it levees, these are called levies. There\u2019s different types of levees That can happen. That is different percentages of money that can be taken.
\n6:46
\nSo if I give up my right to receive that money and I and I give it to somebody else, let\u2019s say, my friend, bill, right, I always use Bill Smith as an example.
\n6:57
\nSo I give my money, my rights, to receive the money to Bill.
\n7:01
\nAnd now that money\u2019s not being taken anymore because it\u2019s not being paid to me.
\n7:06
\nThe problem is that Bill could also have a similar situation, right?
\n7:10
\nBill has similar likelihood of having consumer debt problems and that he mito somebody completely different and that would mix my problems with his problems as you can see.
\n7:24
\nSo what I discovered is that we have some really useful tools of divesting, one\u2019s exclusive rights over Property and its property rights.
\n7:34
\nSo, if, if I were to divest my exclusive right to Bill, we share the problem.
\n7:39
\nBut if Bill and I together form an arrangement, maybe it\u2019s a contract, right, a partnership, let\u2019s call it, or maybe it\u2019s going to be a company.
\n7:48
\nLet\u2019s say we both on jointly accompany and then we move our property rights and our property titles over to the company and we can still enjoy the property and receive the cash and this sort of thing.
\n8:00
\nBut no longer, would we individually have the exclusive rights to spend the money or sell the property.
\n8:07
\nThat\u2019s the key phrase, if you have the right to spend it or sell it, it can be taken from me, and these are the things I learned early on.
\n8:12
\nin the in the nineties, after my first few cases, I was like, well, OK, Let\u2019s just go to the solve the problem. Let\u2019s not try and drag, drag it out, and build the client by the hour.
\n8:22
\nLike, attorneys do, This is not really solving people\u2019s problems, and, yeah, that\u2019s the industry standard, and I think it\u2019s wrong, I think it\u2019s unethical to do that.
\n8:30
\nSo, here\u2019s how you solve the problem.
\n8:31
\nYou take your rights that are now being levied against and you, you devise, divest them you move them over to a group, and the group is another structure. It\u2019s a person.
\n8:41
\nIt\u2019s a legal person so we can create a legal person, we can use a corporation, we can use a trust. we can use. Not all trust do this though, by the way.
\n8:49
\nWhat I like to use is a limited liability company, and if you talk to be long enough, you listen to my videos long enough, you gotta figure out that.
\n8:57
\nIt might sound like every solution. I have involves a limited liability company, but it\u2019s a, it\u2019s a very useful tool. I have to say probably 90% of the problems I solve, use limited liability companies. Not always, but, sometimes it\u2019s actually a simple letter. I can write a letter sometimes or a phone call, it\u2019s amazing. I\u2019ll give you a quick example before I get into the actual structure.
\n9:16
\nBecause we\u2019re gonna get into more.
\n9:18
\nI\u2019m gonna tell you more about the way I approach different problems and the categories of problems.
\n9:23
\nBut I\u2019m gonna give you this little brief story, because I want you to understand my attitude and how I think about things.
\n9:29
\nSo a friend of mine, his, his friend was in the Air Force, and he was up for promotion.
\n9:35
\nAnd he\u2019s probably in his twenties, young kid and he was up for promotion and he wasn\u2019t gonna get promoted.
\n9:43
\nHis, his commanding officer would promote him because he made all the criteria, I mean, this guy worked really hard.
\n9:49
\nHe was in the, you know, he had taken all these tests and all had gotten all these certifications, but he wasn\u2019t gonna get the promotion because he didn\u2019t have stellar credit, personal credit.
\n10:01
\nSo, I pulled this file. I said, Let me see your your credit file.
\n10:04
\nSo, I pulled this file, and I saw that he had acquired, like, most of the deaths he had were student loans, and I asked him, What do you get the student loans for?
\n10:11
\nAnd he explained that he went and got paid first courses, and whatever it is further.
\n10:18
\nHis certifications that he was getting to further his career, so the student loans and the deaths he was acquiring wasn\u2019t to buy TVs and cars, and things like that, it was to further his career. He was a serious guy. He wanted to be a certain rank in the in the Air Force in the US. Air Force.
\n10:32
\nSo I said, Well, this is easy. Let me just write a letter. I wrote a letter to his commanding officer and I explain this. I said, Yeah, he\u2019s got all these debts and he\u2019s going to pay them. And he\u2019s going to use his his profession in the military to pay off these debts. And most of them, as you can see, have been acquired for the purpose of furthering his career.
\n10:51
\nAnd I said it\u2019s ironic that he could be penalized for furthering his career simply because of the way he\u2019s gone about funding.
\n10:59
\nit or financing the method of furthering his career.
\n11:03
\nAnd I\u2019d say that\u2019s even more ironic that book, both of you are employed by the biggest debtor in human history the United States, and how can he be penalized for also having debts for the benefit he\u2019s acting in the benefit of the United States.
\n11:18
\nAnd I think that was enough.
\n11:19
\nAnd he, coming back, a couple of days later, when we sent that letter off, and he said, Wow, he has the commanding officer called me, and he said, You\u2019re good to go?
\n11:26
\nYou\u2019re, you\u2019re promoted, congratulations. So, so there\u2019s different ways of solving problems is not always structuring things, and I always, I always caution people just, because someone has a fancy name for an item.
\n11:37
\nKnow, a piece of paper with words on it, is, what I call it, a legal structure that\u2019s not going to solve your problem.
\n11:42
\nWhat\u2019s going to solve the problem, hopefully, is thinking things through and changing your habits and looking at things analytically.
\n11:49
\nOK, there is no silver bullet, right?
\n11:52
\nSo, a lot of the different types of problems people come to me with, I always come down to this issue of having a property rights, and also disclosing too much information, or not having the right types of privacy.
\n12:08
\nSo, there, that\u2019s the corner of a lot of these problems.
\n12:10
\nSo, one of the things I recommend is that people stop using so much personal credit. Don\u2019t get into long term debt.
\n12:18
\nDon\u2019t get into 30 year mortgages 30 a 30 year mortgage should be fraud just on its face There\u2019s no reason to get into a 30 year mortgage because the only reason we haven\u2019t really is not for people. It\u2019s for corporations in countries.
\n12:31
\nThe 30 year mortgage just exploits people. And it also it subsidizes the price of housing. It causes housing prices to go to go up.
\n12:38
\nSo really that the cost of real estate should be.
\n12:42
\nMaybe this is naive for me to say, but I think after looking at so many cases, I think this is part of the problem. The price of real estate should be materials and labor and a premium and the premium is just like anything else. If I buy a high-end product with a unique brand name, like Toyota, I might pay more money than if I bought off brand type, you know, car or other product.
\n13:03
\nSo, the Price of Real Estate should be more about, you know, labor and materials, and a premium based on who the builders.
\n13:12
\nAt the same time, I am an Advocate of Business Credit.
\n13:16
\nI think it\u2019s a great idea to have business credit.
\n13:18
\nYou should have a structure for which you acquire credit debts and but not be the personal guarantor.
\n13:25
\nSo really, I\u2019m just against personal credit, and a lot of the remedies I\u2019ve come up with over the years are really I try to get people into using business credit. Not specifically business credit, but the thinking around using so much personal credit in addition to solving the problem. Yeah. I can fix credit. That\u2019s easy, In fact, I do that for free a lot of times, because I think, again, I think it\u2019s, it\u2019s really wrong it too, I mean, I know it takes time, and there\u2019s a value to the service. but I just think that people are exploited by companies that charge money specifically to fix your credit when actually that should be part of a bigger plan.
\n14:00
\nFixture credit, But yeah, but let\u2019s figure out how we\u2019re going to supplement your pension income, because you don\u2019t have any retirement income except your Social Security, So there\u2019s gotta be a way to supplement that, and we can, we can work that out. So, that\u2019s what I\u2019d like to show people.
\n14:16
\nI do, I do like to replace a lot of personal banking habits with businesses or trust organizations, specifically, to manage personal cashflow.
\n14:24
\nA business also is good for managing business cash flow, but I also use them for managing personal cash flow.
\n14:29
\nAnd then I do things like the Equity Stripping.
\n14:31
\nThat\u2019s a big subject, If you want to check that out.
\n14:34
\nAn equity stripping is done by a special group of asset protection type attorneys.
\n14:42
\nI have some strategies that I use specifically to solve specific problems. That\u2019s not always the solution.
\n14:49
\nBut it is an aspect of what I call risk management.
\n14:51
\nSo I look at consumer debt, small business debt, other types of risks. And the strategies I have are a way to manage those risks. Sometimes I can make the risk away completely, and sometimes I can make it to where it doesn\u2019t value that much.
\n15:07
\nThe basic concept is, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard before, is own nothing and control everything.
\n15:12
\nThe technical way to explain that is, you want to make a list of all the things that you have the right to spend, all right, money, cash, and all the property that you have, the right to sell.
\n15:23
\nIf you have the exclusive rights to sell, then it\u2019s a risk.
\n15:28
\nSo if you have personal debts, possibly, or you might get sued, maybe you\u2019re in a profession. Your credits perfect, but you\u2019re in a profession, or some activity that may result in you being sued is suddenly think about.
\n15:39
\nAnother consideration I have is not so much your ability to pay.
\n15:45
\nIf you\u2019re sued and lose, it\u2019s the practice of avoiding the need to get involved in litigation.
\n15:54
\nSo I know that I talked to someone last week, and he was talking about having insurance for litigation insurance.
\n16:01
\nIt seemed like, as his net worth went up, he had more of a need for that when he was getting advice from attorneys.
\n16:06
\nAnd, of course, they\u2019re going to tell people that My recommendation is cut off the liability and not you won\u2019t need the ability to pay a creditor just if the creditor can\u2019t collect.
\n16:16
\nHe can\u2019t collect, work it out. Harvey can, but don\u2019t leave. Things that are important to you at risk. Don\u2019t leave property. At risk cashflow at risk. That\u2019s so easy to protect. You don\u2019t need insurance, you don\u2019t need to pay for litigation. You don\u2019t need to pay attorney fees for litigation in most cases. Sometimes you do.
\n16:33
\nI do like to show people how to use Business Credit, so, you know, Dun and Bradstreet is a credit reporting service for businesses.
\n16:41
\nIt is not the goto. It\u2019s a nice tool.
\n16:44
\nI do like specializing and joint ventures, though.
\n16:48
\nFor myself, I like bootstrapping.
\n16:50
\nSo what that means is, I show people, once I\u2019ve eliminated most of the liability or all the liability, I see the there. They\u2019re smart, and they have the person I\u2019m working with. They have resources, But they\u2019re not using them properly.
\n17:02
\nSo what I like to show people is how to start making more money with what they\u2019re already doing. Not getting a second job, but not creating a whole new career.
\n17:12
\nBut maybe spending a couple of hours a week, focused on something, and then make another 1 or 2, or three, or 10 or $20,000 a month.
\n17:20
\nDoing a few things a little bit differently. And I call that bootstrapping bootstrapping basically means I\u2019m going to start a business from nothing.
\n17:29
\nIt\u2019s done all the time. You guys have seen surer examples of that. I will caution you on this though, Bootstrapping is hard.
\n17:36
\nUh, even though I like it, it\u2019s difficult.
\n17:39
\nAnd I think, maybe this goes to lack of experience, but I think it kinda restrains the business in the future. So at a point, you get it. You need funding.
\n17:49
\nAnd sometimes that, it takes more time to get things going with bootstrapping.
\n17:53
\nBut in any case, I like to show people how to do joint venturing.
\n17:56
\nSo I will spend time with the client after I\u2019ve get rid of all the liability that I could, I spent time with him to see what he could do, what he has proficiency in, based on his career, and also what he really likes to do. And from that information, we, we dial in a couple of ideas, and then I help them build that out.
\n18:15
\nSo, for example, let\u2019s say, I\u2019m working with somebody who\u2019s promoting a non-profit and doesn\u2019t know how to get on TV, does know how to get on the radio. I show people how to do that. In most cases, I can do it for almost no cost. And which, you know, I\u2019ve had a couple of those examples in the last few months.
\n18:29
\nSo that\u2019s kinda fun. So those are the other things I get into.
\n18:33
\nI do use tools like, crowdfunding and seller financing.
\n18:38
\nIf I do equity stripping for a client for a specific problem, I do try to consider the fact that he may need funding in some point in the future.
\n18:46
\nSo I structure the equity stripping strategies in a way where he could have some liquidity from what I\u2019ve created for him.
\n18:53
\nAnd I don\u2019t like to create such a complex situation for people, so that they need me forever.
\n19:01
\nIt\u2019s nice to be needed. It\u2019s nice to earn money doing this work, but I do, like the people who have our autonomy and have some level of learning after I\u2019m working with them.
\n19:09
\nI don\u2019t want them to be dependent on me for a form, for example. So, if I create a system, it might take me six months to get you going on something.
\n19:16
\nAnd then, maybe a couple of years from now, if I\u2019m no longer around, which I\u2019ve been doing this for 25 years. So I think I\u2019ll be here for awhile, but if I\u2019m no longer around, I disappear.
\n19:27
\nWhat I\u2019ve created for people, most people is simple enough to where you could go to any professional. Someone who\u2019s an attorney who specializes in companies or structures, and he, he or she can help you, and say that we\u2019re not left trying to, having to rebuild everything from scratch. I do work with people that are high net worth. I do, Most of my clients are not high net worth.
\n19:50
\nBut I do recommend a couple of things, people that are high net worth, and that have the ability to to pay for assets. I do always recommend still using financing.
\n19:58
\nSo even whether or not you get it in the beginning or not, something to consider.
\n20:02
\nSo, I do talk about cash flow and the value of cash flow.
\n20:07
\nBecause you\u2019re gonna, you\u2019re gonna lose some value if you\u2019re gonna pay for an asset with cash upfront, if you don\u2019t get your financing pretty soon after that. So, we talk about that, too.
\n20:18
\nUm, another interesting thing that a lot of people are finding.
\n20:23
\nThey\u2019re really fed up with the car insurance industry. And I\u2019m not saying this is a solution for everyone. It does work for me, it does work with some, for some of my clients.
\n20:31
\nI do show people how to setup a way to cover their personal auto insurance needs without using a third party.
\n20:39
\nSo you can use a company that\u2019s your own company, and you can use it to meet your insurance needs, and you control, and you can write the deal however you want.
\n20:47
\nYou can completely get out of that industry. It\u2019s just a different set of considerations that you have to have.
\n20:52
\nI\u2019ll give you a quick example.
\n20:54
\nI carry my own car insurance. It\u2019s my own company. I read the policy. I make the decisions. I also cover my wife.
\n21:02
\nAs it turns out, I taught her how to drive for my mother-in-law for her mom.
\n21:08
\nI chose not to cover her. No hard feelings. She\u2019s OK with that. Everybody laughs when I tell them this, but I just don\u2019t like the way she drives. It\u2019s that simple. So you really have to make those decisions. It has to be pragmatic, OK. Just because you have this new system, doesn\u2019t mean you can lump everybody in there if you have an Irresponsible brother. You probably don\u2019t want to have him covered under your policy. He can do what he wants, for example, OK?
\n21:29
\nJust because he\u2019s family doesn\u2019t mean you have to cover them, So it is a different world, but there is a way to have your own insurance Without paying a third party.
\n21:37
\nLike I said before, another thing is people come to me where, you know, I can solve their problem, but a lot of times it\u2019s just flat out they just need more cash flow, and it\u2019s sometimes it\u2019s right in front of them, They just can\u2019t see how to get it.
\n21:51
\nSo I show them what to do, I might, it might mean, I set them up with a meeting, with the person they need to talk to, or it might be they just need, they need a press release, for example.
\n22:03
\nOr they need a phone call from somebody who\u2019s going to get them on the radio, OK? And so I can show things like that.
\n22:09
\nI can show them how to take a product that they already have, that they don\u2019t even know they have, and they can put it on e-bay and sell it.
\n22:15
\nI can show them how to build a product, and sell it, or I can show how to do a joint venture with someone else who\u2019s already doing it, and create their own little niche, and start making some cashflow within 30 days, 90 days.
\n22:27
\nSo, I like doing that for people, it gives them some freedom, and gives them some peace of mind.
\n22:32
\nLike I said, more money is not always solving problems, a lot more money.
\n22:36
\nUsually, has a different set of problems that don\u2019t think having a lot more money is a great thing.
\n22:41
\nIt is a great thing, but it\u2019s not exactly what you think.
\n22:45
\nAlso, just another note that I run into.
\n22:50
\nPeople think, having money, people who have a lot of debt, let\u2019s say thinking, having a lot of money would be great to use to pay off the old debt.
\n22:58
\nBut what happens is, that person doesn\u2019t change his habits because he got the easy way he just got a windfall and paid off his old debt.
\n23:05
\nSo what I recommend is people that are earning new money, receiving new money going forward.
\n23:12
\nConsider using that new money. instead of paying off old debts. Consider learning how to acquire a new asset or increase your cash flow.
\n23:22
\nThen use that cash flow. If you still want to pay off the debt. Go right ahead. Do that. But choose your new asset to do that.
\n23:27
\nAnd the reason I mention that is because many people I\u2019m talking with today are involved in cryptographic currency. And they are dealing with these exchanges, and they want structures that will get them around all this reporting.
\n23:38
\nIn this garbage and the presumptions that that\u2019s your, that you have a tax consequence when you didn\u2019t sell your kryptos, things like that. So the companies I structure are designed to protect people against those things.
\n23:52
\nSo that\u2019s why, actually, that\u2019s why I\u2019m doing this videos, because a lot of people want to know about that. I\u2019ll just tell you real quick.
\n23:59
\nI\u2019ve been using these structures for over 20 years, so. I\u2019ve been doing this for about 25 years, and it took me a few years to figure this out. So for about 20 something years, I\u2019ve been using these types of structures.
\n24:09
\nAnd in over the over the years, it\u2019s been about people that had windfalls, or lots of debt, or they wanted to handle the sale of real estate, commercial real estate as a matter of residential. Or they had to handle a stock account or an inheritance, And they just needed a way to do it in a way that was going to serve their interests. So I structured things for that. Now, cryptographic currency comes along. It just happens to be just another asset class, OK?
\n24:35
\nIt\u2019s just another asset class. It has its own set of risks. There\u2019s a few nuances that I\u2019ve come up with in the last year, or so, and we can get, we\u2019ll get into that.
\n24:45
\nBut I want to give you a general idea of what I like to focus on, alright?
\n24:48
\nSo, that\u2019s going to be, I think, enough to introduce who I am.
\n24:55
\nLike I said, I don\u2019t have any professional memberships. I\u2019m not.
\n24:59
\nI\u2019m not a member of the bar, I\u2019m not an accountant, but I do rely on some of those services.
\n25:04
\nSo, if your situation might require it, then we can, we can set that up properly.
\n25:07
\nNow, I\u2019m going to go into specific details because I think a lot of people that are going to watch this video want to know about kryptos, right?
\n25:15
\nSo And the application of what I\u2019m talking about as far as kryptos, go, we\u2019re not talking about post windfall we\u2019re just talking about what do I do right now to maintain my ability to manage my crypto account and stop this 10 99 Garbage in the question?
\n25:30
\nDo I have a tax consequences because I treated litecoin, litecoin for bitcoin, and this sort of thing.
\n25:34
\nSo you can look at my website. You can read my articles. You can do your own research. You can see that there\u2019s no gain when you\u2019re trading between cryptographic currency.
\n25:43
\nOK, there\u2019s some legislation in Wyoming where it\u2019s becoming friendlier to pay taxes using cryptographic currency.
\n25:51
\nThis is not a good thing, in my opinion.
\n25:52
\nIt\u2019s tricking people into thinking that it\u2019s that it\u2019s a good thing because what they want to do is make it acceptable, influence public policy to where people believe that kryptos are taxable and then it becomes easy to get them to pay.
\n26:05
\nGet them to pay taxes in the kryptos.
\n26:08
\nCryptographic currency is kind of a safe haven.
\n26:10
\nIt\u2019s like gold and silver, as long as you\u2019re not selling it for dollars, it\u2019s not subject to the tax.
\n26:15
\nSo to make it even easier.
\n26:18
\nUm, we can use a structure with your cryptographic exchange provider, like Coinbase, for example, or Gemini.
\n26:29
\nIf we use a limited liability company, we can use it as a pass through. It doesn\u2019t have to file a tax return.
\n26:34
\nAs long as you account for any money you take out for personal use, you\u2019re fine as long as you.
\n26:40
\nYou can move the, You can sell kryptos, for example, put it in your LLC, account at the exchange, and you can spend it back into some other asset. You can even buy a house. And there\u2019s different ways of doing that. You can buy a house and pay tax on the windfall. Or, you can buy a house and do it in a way that doesn\u2019t create a new tax consequences. You can move money from one asset to another, This is not a 1031 exchange.
\n27:02
\nThat doesn\u2019t even apply, OK. I know people talk about, it\u2019s not a, like, or, like kind exchange, and that\u2019s irrelevant.
\n27:09
\nSo, we\u2019re just taking one asset and moving it to another, but we\u2019re doing it through.
\n27:13
\nThis is not the right.
\n27:14
\nThis is not the right phrase to use, but we\u2019re doing it through an escrow, like service.
\n27:20
\nOK, the LLC that I show people how to use is much like a disqualified escrow account.
\n27:26
\nNow, sometimes we use something called qualified escrowed to actually really move the value of the currency into a new asset.
\n27:33
\nSo if you took the value of your Bitcoin, whether it\u2019s in dollars a Bitcoin at the time, I can go through qualified escrow and I can buy an apartment complex with it and then later on, I can get my financing.
\n27:44
\nOr vice versa.
\n27:45
\nI can do whatever I want at that point, and I, I\u2019ve had, I had the game pass through me, but I don\u2019t have the game, I can use it, I can use the LLC as a tool for that purpose.
\n27:54
\nSo let me get into that here.
\n27:57
\nI\u2019m going to cover this more. OK?
\n27:59
\nSo again, this is an introduction to what I do.
\n28:03
\nAnd this is also, specifically on cryptographic currency. We can talk for days on all kinds of other subjects. But I just wanted to cover this, because I know a lot of you want to hear about cryptographic currency.
\n28:14
\nSo we set up, we set up an account with a limited liability company, So I register it, and in a state, that\u2019s convenient for you. If I can, If you\u2019re in California or Illinois or Texas, I recommend not registering that company in those states.
\n28:30
\nIt\u2019s pretty easy to get around.
\n28:33
\nWe usually have to get an address in another state, like New Mexico or Ohio, if I\u2019m an Illinois. I like to use Ohio.
\n28:39
\nThere are some other states I avoid, too, but those are those three of the worst. And here\u2019s why, it\u2019s because of the state regulations.
\n28:45
\nIt\u2019s not really taxes or anything like that.
\n28:48
\nIt\u2019s just state regulations.
\n28:49
\nBecause you\u2019re always going to, it\u2019s a pass through it.
\n28:50
\nSo it doesn\u2019t matter that with the tax rules are in your particular state, It\u2019s also the cost of setting it up. And also if there\u2019s a recurring costs, so like in New Mexico, in Pennsylvania, there are no recurring costs.
\n29:02
\nNew Mexico cost, $50, it\u2019s the cheapest you\u2019re gonna find. I think there might be one for $45.
\n29:07
\nOhio is like $50, I think. It\u2019s so easy to set those up in those states.
\n29:12
\nIf you\u2019re in a close by state, we just set up an address. And I have different methods of doing that.
\n29:17
\nSome people can use a relative\u2019s address or a friends, and we can We can work, that work that way.
\n29:23
\nWrite the address that I used for the company, that we set up, doesn\u2019t necessarily need to receive mail.
\n29:28
\nWe can get around the needing to receive mail aspect, We can use e-mail, we can use another address. That\u2019s not part of the official filing.
\n29:36
\nAlright, so once I file the accompany, this is after I\u2019ve sent you the documents for the company, and you\u2019ve approved them, I registered the company and get a file number. Then we go back and get a tax number for it.
\n29:46
\nPeople freak out over that.
\n29:48
\nYou can get a tax number. Yeah, you have to use an SSN.
\n29:51
\nThe applicant has to have an EIN or an SSN in some way. You can do it yourself. It\u2019s so easy to do.
\n29:57
\nIt does not create a tax consequences just because you\u2019re applying for an EIN, in behalf of a company, An, LLC.
\n30:04
\nSo you go up in the account, OK, whoever is going to open the account for you Coinbase or whatever or even your bank they\u2019re gonna go through the know your customer, the KYC rules, the procedures. They\u2019re gonna want to who you are. They gonna wanna see your ID and things like this. They\u2019re going to want to know what your interest in the company is. They\u2019re going to ask you a lot of other questions. I\u2019d make sure you get answers to everything. You\u2019re not going to be left there.
\n30:23
\nWondering, what, how to answer these questions?
\n30:26
\nSo, it\u2019s not easy. It\u2019s actually more difficult. with the exchange, but it can, it can be done, They only takes one visit. Sometimes it might take a week of sending documents back and forth maybe 3 or 4 communications and we get the accounts open.
\n30:40
\nI\u2019ve never had one where someone didn\u2019t open the account of thousands of these, OK?
\n30:46
\nUm, so, we use this LLC in a special way, it does not become an S corp, although the bank does ask, what does the tax treatment on this will tell the bank anything. It doesn\u2019t matter.
\n30:58
\nWhat works is this, when we set up the LLC, we have to file articles, articles with the state.
\n31:05
\nThe articles are what is, or what are binding on the company.
\n31:09
\nIt\u2019s not anything you say.
\n31:11
\nSo if I set up articles that say a specific thing, and the state gives me a phone number and approves my charter. And I go to the bank and say, so tell the bank, whatever else I want to tell the bank, let\u2019s say, I tell the state, I\u2019m going to sell widgets on e-bay.
\n31:25
\nAnd then I go tell the bank, I\u2019m going to invest in real estate.
\n31:29
\nIt doesn\u2019t matter.
\n31:31
\nThe banks just gonna give me the account, and it\u2019s never going to follow up and it\u2019s not binding, and I\u2019m not under a contract. It\u2019s just information, the bank is collecting information.
\n31:37
\nSo this is how we do things.
\n31:41
\nOn your exchanges, they\u2019re going to ask you for Whacky information. They\u2019re going to ask you for an organizational chart, things like this. We have responses for this.
\n31:48
\nClient of mine was nice enough to set up a tutorial and I\u2019ll walk you through the steps to open accounts at crack and Coinbase.
\n31:55
\nHe may do some more. I haven\u2019t asked him.
\n31:58
\nBut that is a pretty good example of the kind of questions you\u2019re gonna see because they\u2019re pretty much all following the same KYC procedures.
\n32:06
\nAnother question I get asked is is there a tax situation if I\u2019m going from wallet to wallet? No, there\u2019s not. Think of.
\n32:13
\nThink of the way the cryptographic currency has been recently defined Now as defined by the IRS as property and the definition was published in one of its bulletins, an IRS bulletin, that\u2019s enough to make it binding on everybody.
\n32:28
\nSo fortunately, I mean, that\u2019s a good thing, kryptos are property just like gold and silver. So what are the rules for gold and silver? Well, they\u2019re the same rules for cryptographic currency.
\n32:37
\nAnd those rules and the case law and everything goes back over 100 years. So this really works well for everybody who\u2019s getting into this, this class of assets.
\n32:45
\nSo if you ever have a question, if kryptos are taxable, look at what happens with the gold coin.
\n32:50
\nIf I take a gold coin and I pass it around to people, it\u2019s a gold coin, I\u2019m passing it around a group of people that\u2019s not taxable.
\n32:59
\nSame thing with kryptos, if I put my cryptographic currency on a treasurer or a paper wallet, can I pass it around to other people it\u2019s not taxable if I take a band of $10000 and I pass it around to my friends.
\n33:13
\nTechnically, yeah. They\u2019re each getting $10000.
\n33:18
\nBut in that situation, it\u2019s not going to get reported. And it\u2019s no one\u2019s really getting again, because we\u2019re just passing the money around. It\u2019s kind of a silly example, but if someone has me $10000, I probably should report it, right?
\n33:29
\nIt\u2019s probably going to be a game.
\n33:32
\nOK, so, these are the general ideas, I give you the bare minimum of what\u2019s needed to open the accounts. I clear the path, so you can open the accounts without a problem.
\n33:44
\nWe have a standard operating agreement, I\u2019ve modified it in such a way where there\u2019s no disbursement schedule. And I can explain in more detail why we do that. But again, everything is for asset protection, everything\u2019s done for risk management and everything\u2019s done so that you don\u2019t have to be stuck with me for the next 10 years. It\u2019s everybody. If anybody can read that document that I\u2019ve done for you, and they can say, OK, I see what was going on here.
\n34:06
\nNow, when we go to the bank, we don\u2019t give them the actual document. We don\u2019t give them the opening agreement. They can see the articles on the Internet.
\n34:13
\nThey can see the articles. If the bank wants a certified copy, we get that too.
\n34:17
\nBut what we give the bank is what I call an abstract. This is a one page version of a 20 or 30 page operating agreement.
\n34:24
\nThe one page version is enough to give them the information. That\u2019s enough to get the account opened.
\n34:29
\nWe usually open up my single members, even though many times people want to move to a multiple members, LLC, that works out really well.
\n34:37
\nAnd then, and then it kind of plays out that way.
\n34:40
\nSo, I\u2019m gonna try to get covered this real quick.
\n34:46
\nSo, we try to stay away from California, Illinois, and Texas.
\n34:52
\nWe can do that pretty easily. It\u2019s easy to set up an address in New Mexico or Wyoming, these are good states, and then sometimes we\u2019ll use Mailbox services. So, if you\u2019re in California, just plan on setting up a mailbox service that you\u2019re going to use on a regular basis. There\u2019s a postal forum we used for that purpose.
\n35:10
\nSome of the re mailing services we use don\u2019t require postal forms or certain types of disclosures, but we\u2019ll help you with that.
\n35:18
\nAnd ironically, the postal form that we used to open up mailbox services asks you, what alias? You want to use an alias? It uses the word trade name, but basically it\u2019s the same thing.
\n35:28
\nSo the Post Office understands that people want to use aliases.
\n35:31
\nI\u2019m not saying that we\u2019re always going to use an alias, but it\u2019s interesting that the idea, the concept of using an alias, or let\u2019s call it a fake name, it has so much stigma attached to it, that even the Postal Service has a forum that encourages people or provides a way where people can use an alias with their mailbox. So, there are many reasons why somebody would want to do that.
\n35:53
\nAll right, I\u2019m going to end this for now.
\n35:56
\nI think this is a good introductory video for everybody who wants to know about what I do. And I\u2019ve asked the question of whether or not, what I\u2019m doing can help someone with a cryptographic currency account.
\n36:08
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