Jeff Lerman

This is important and time-sensitive. There are certain estate and tax planning strategies that can save you money, but you have to act now. Some of them have a December 31 deadline. My partner, Michelle, who is certified as a Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust...

Your home should be your oasis—the place where you can escape the stress and challenges of the rest of the world. But what happens when you’ve got a problem with your neighbor? Often those disputes can escalate to Hatfield v. McCoy proportions, costing you tens, or...

We're getting lots of great real-world asset protection lessons lately ripped straight from the headlines. Yet another one came out yesterday. It drives home many crucial lessons that frequent readers of this bLAWg will recognize from my past posts, yet they...

With the lingering depressed housing market, one of the most common requests we get from investors is to help them deal with the enormous, often life-changing, burden of a property that is worth far less than the debt against it. To give those of you in this...

Yesterday’s “Today Show” featured a video taking you inside the house where Michael Jackson lived at the time of his tragic death. The grim tour was led by the company that will be auctioning off the 600 items of furnishings and personal property that Jackson left...

If you own a single-member limited liability company (“SMLLC”) and live in a community property state, recent developments now make it prudent for you to seriously consider adding at least one more member to your LLC (with an appropriate change in your Operating...

About 15 minutes into her latest public television program, "The Money Class", Suze Orman advises that if you have a home equity line of credit (HELOC) and you do a short sale, you have a big problem. She explains the HELOC is recourse and that even if you do a short...

Jeff appeared on the radio program "Best of Investing" last Saturday and discussed the important, timely topic of how to save your commercial property from foreclosure. If you own commercial real estate, you may be encountering serious challenges right now. Odds are...

New rules were just issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board that will impact commercial loan modifications. Click here to read more about this important new development in this article written by Jeff Lerman and published today in the North Bay Business...

Jeff recently hosted the Going Beyond Real Estate Show on the Wall St. Business Network (KDOW 1220 AM). In addition to discussing hot topics he's encountering with his investor clients (if you would like to discuss any of those topics, please contact Jeff at...