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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: The ABCs of LLCs
• Chapter 1: What Is an LLC, Really?
• Understanding How LLCs Work
• Creating Your Own LLC: Your First Step Toward Success
• Operating Your LLC
• Chapter 2: LLCs: More Handy Than Duct Tape!
• Understanding Why LLCs Are Awesome
• Taking a Look at a Few Wrinkles
• Discovering the LLC’s Many Variations
• Chapter 3: Determining Whether an LLC Is Right for You
• Knowing Your Options: Other Business Structures
• Getting Personal: Using an LLC to Achieve Your Goals
• Part 2: Your First Steps: Forming Your LLC
• Chapter 4: Playing — and Winning — the Name Game
• Establishing the Best Name for Your LLC
• Determining the Availability of a Name
• Protecting Your Name
• Completing Your Identity with a Logo
• Changing Your Name
• Chapter 5: Choosing the Best State for Your LLC
• Your State or Not Your State, That Is the Question
• Exploring Tax and Privacy Havens
• Working with a State-Required Registered Agent
• Chapter 6: Creating and Filing Your Articles of Organization
• Making a Few Big Decisions
• Preparing Your Articles
• Filing Your Articles
• Considering Formation Companies
• Chapter 7: Converting Your Current Business into an LLC
• Considering Conversion to an LLC
• Navigating the Tax Minefield
• Executing the Conversion
• Tying Up Loose Ends After the Conversion
• Part 3: Structuring Your LLC
• Chapter 8: Tell Uncle Sam How It Is! Choosing How You Want to Be Taxed
• Getting to Know the Tax Types
• Notifying the IRS of Your Election
• Chapter 9: Make It Official! Getting Started on Your Operating Agreement
• What Is an Operating Agreement?
• Establishing Your Framework
• Drafting Basic Provisions
• Chapter 10: Structuring Your Partnership
• Understanding the Terminology: Members, Interests, and Certificates
• Locating and Recruiting Key Partners
• Issuing the Membership
• Making Folks Earn Their Share: Membership Vesting
• Setting Up a Single-Member LLC
• Setting Up Rules for Managers
• Chapter 11: Using Your LLC to Attract Investors
• Structuring Your LLC to Attract Investors
• Appeasing the SEC with an LLC
• Flying through State Securities Laws (Blue Sky Laws)
• Chapter 12: Doing the Membership Shuffle
• Investigating Intricacies of LLC Membership Interests
• Preparing Now For an Easy Transition Later
• Executing the Transition
• Wrapping Up the Operating Agreement
• Part 4: Running Your Brand-New LLC
• Chapter 13: Maintaining Your Records (And Your Sanity)
• Filing Your Initial Report
• Paying to Play: Business Licenses
• Meeting Other Pertinent Requirements
• (Record) Keeping Your Liability Protection
• Chapter 14: Making Cents of Taxes
• Reviewing the Tax Types
• Filing Your Federal Returns
• Avoiding LLC Tax Traps
• Chapter 15: Expanding Your Empire: Going National!
• Registering Your LLC in Multiple States
• Maintaining Your Multi-State LLC
• Chapter 16: Dissolutions: Every Beginning Has an End
• Getting Clear on the Context
• It’s Melting! Examining the Reasons Your LLC May Dissolve
• Considering the Future Before Calling It Quits
• Undergoing the Dissolution Process
• Part 5: LLCs on Steroids: Advanced Strategies
• Chapter 17: Using LLCs to Cover Your Assets
• Knowing the Dangers: What Can Happen without LLC Protection
• Getting the Best Asset Protection with LLCs
• Exploring Strategies for Increased Security
• Chapter 18: Protecting Real Estate with LLCs
• Comparing LLCs to Other Possible Real Estate Entities
• Looking at LLC Property Logistics
• Part 6: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 19: Ten Good Reasons to Form an LLC
• To Customize Your Small Business
• To Protect Real Estate Assets
• To Shield Intellectual Property
• To Raise Seed Capital for Your Business
• To Plan Your Estate
• To Do a Short-Term Project
• To Segregate Assets
• To Minimize Your Tax Burden
• To Change the Profit Distributions
• To Protect Your Personal Assets
• Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Keep Your Liability Protection Intact
• File the LLC Properly
• Find a Partner
• Create an Operating Agreement
• Capitalize the Company
• File Your Annual Reports
• Hold Member Meetings Regularly
• Obtain Your Licenses and Permits
• Avoid Commingling Funds and Assets
• Sign Your Documents Correctly
• Give Up Some Control
• Glossary
• Index
• About the Author
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement