@costseg101 memes....shibbolethic pseudonyms... nft/pixel anon profile pic?... hidden references to "De Computis et Scripturis" and 15th Century Franciscan friars?
Greg is the Cost Seg industry's Satoshi Nakamoto and clearly the only cool one of us cost seg nerds.
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@Wildlaw406 The assertion that the use of a sans-serif font in legal pleadings is inherently objectionable lacks legal merit and contravenes the Font Integrity Statute of 2024 (FIS § 2024.01). You are hereby ordered to cease and desist. Furthermore we expect a formal public apology.
Feeling grumpy again about the standard-issue, not-a-hint-of-f*ing-nuance "Put the property in an LLC to avoid lawsuits" advice that gets distributed like junk mail.
Latest stupid mess this over-generalized advice is causing:
When you have more than one member in the LLC, and the relationship breaks down, the operating agreement controls most questions of members being bought out/expelled, how decisions get made about the property, like to whether to sell it or divide it, etc. Problem is, most operating agreements absolutely f*ing suck at providing clear guidelines for such things (or anything else really).
Without getting too deep into the technical weeds: if an operating agreement doesn't specify how something works, then the relevant statutes (the state of organization's Limited Liability Company Act) provide the rules. But if the OA specifies its own procedures/rules, then those trump the statutes (except certain statutory protections you can't contract around).
What I'm dealing with right this very moment, is an operating agreement that says something that maybe does and maybe doesn't provide a different procedure than the statutes do, depending on how you read it.
An attorney drafted it, the clients paid good money for it, AND IT'S WORSE THAN IF THEY HAD NO OPERATING AGREEMENT AT ALL!!!
Side rant to my colleagues:
If you can't write an OA clearly enough to make it obvious whether you are choosing different rules than the default statutory rules, you shouldn't be writing OAs because you're doing more harm than good to your clients.
Honestly, I wish I could tell people how to find the good lawyers, but the lawyers who drafted this POS OA specialize in drafting business entity docs. They have a nice office, and their docs are very pretty and professional looking and sounding—and they're worse than useless.
Back to main point:
Current issue could be resolved if there were a good operating agreement or no operating agreement—or no LLC—but with the LLC with the garbage operating agreement, the only hope is that the other side will agree to something reasonable. If they won't, then litigation becomes the only available option—and the enormous costs of that litigation (minimum of $50–100k likely between the two parties just to get a decision from the trial-level court) should be considered part of the price of putting the property in the LLC.
@Wildlaw406 Imagine as a consumer..trying to “know” this stuff. I
t’s kind of like being a doctor. Step 1 is “10000% know the medicine”. That skill is effectively ASSUMED THO. That’s the “easy part”
The hard part is functioning as an ADVISOR for your patients. Guiding them. Teaching them.