Series LLC + Land Trust Structure
A real estate ownership structure that isolates liability between properties, keeps names off public record, and holds title through layered entities designed for privacy and protection.
Privacy · Liability Protection · Multiple Properties
A single Series LLC sits at the top. It contains multiple internal series, each treated as a separate liability cell. Each series owns its own land trust. Each land trust holds legal title to one real estate property. The result is a structure where a lawsuit against one property cannot reach the others, and public records show a trust name rather than the owner's name.
Real estate investors with multiple properties face a structural choice: one LLC holds everything (cheap, simple, dangerous), or each property gets its own LLC (safe, expensive, heavy). The series LLC plus land trust combination delivers the safety of separate LLCs at roughly the cost of one, while adding a privacy layer that neither alternative provides on its own.
The structures described here are architectural patterns that require careful customization to the specific facts of each client, jurisdiction, and set of planning objectives. These diagrams and summaries exist to build vocabulary and pattern recognition, not to substitute for qualified counsel.