I’m an insurance agent and I own an Insurance Agency. Turo is not car sharing. It’s a car rental business. That’s why most insurance companies do not allow it. Right now Travelers is the company insuring vehicles for Turo. And when you put your car in your business name, it cost more in premium. The only way to get insurance when the car is registered in a business name or LLC is business insurance. Business auto insurance cost a lot more than personal insurance. When hosting on Turo you will need two policies. One with Turo when the vehicle is rented and your personal or business auto policy when it’s not.
@@ostertori2010 because they consider it a rental car business. You would have to find an insurer that insures rental car companies or dealers that rent out cars.
If you could do another video and track the flow of the money for someone who owns the vehicle outright, that would be helpful. In addition, given the two LLC’s, would you need to crest two S corporations. Thank you
Just starting a Turo business. Am I doing this approach correctly... If I open an LLC, purchase a car/cars under that LLC, with a line of credit from that business account. The ownership of the car is under my LLC business. Then I wouldn't need to worry about transferring ownership from personal name and the banks questioning the ownership? Is this the right line of thinking? Now I just need to find a low interest business loan, not sure that it even exists.. Then open the 2nd LLC to control the operating side/money intake side of business.
Thank you Clint for the video However as the margin on the TURO is already slim, having 2 separate LLCs then filing taxes is gonna be a lot expensive. Not worth it.
So, if you are financing and then pay off the vehicle.... you would create an LLC to legally own the vehicle? I just want to make sure I am following you correctly. Thanks!
I THINK A BUSINESS TO BUSINESS LEASE AGREEMENT TUTORIAL WOULD BE A VERY POPULAR VIDEO BECAUSE I LOOKED ALL OVER THE INTERNET AND THE ONLY VIDEO I COULD FIND IS SOME PODCAST DUDE PREACHING ABOUT TAXABLE INCOME AT THE DINNER TABLE
Have a Turo business that’s anonymously owned in the state of Florida and it’s owned by two trusts. One I control and one my fiancé controls. It’s a multi-member business in the state of Florida, so it has charging order protection. The cars in to r anonymously owned as well. Is it worth me making a new business to then lease the cars etc. as u explained when I already have all of this protection?
we ended up creating separate entitiy as recommended by AA, however, the FL Motor vehicle does not allow us to register the vehicle under LLC since there is a lender involved. any rhougjts? thank you M,
HIii! I love ur vid!!! I wanted to start a car rental business but I found there are more than 15 hosts in 1miles around and they are all below 50trips...does that mean the market is saturated?... I'm super worried about financing a car but no one is booking it....
Does transferring car to LLC have any effect on your Taxes? What about buying or selling a car under a LLC is there something to know? What about car insurance? How would you go about setting up a dual entity and leasing the car to the other business? Thanks for answering my questions in advance!
@@ClintCoons My insurance company does require commercial insurance. How would you go about leasing the vehicle? Is there is contract or forms you should fill out between the two companies? Would the business leasing the car ever make income? Should you transfer money in its bank account or something? I really do appreciate your response!
I did my hard research just recently and for most areas it is not really profitable. What is happening is that there is so much competition - the smaller fleets and owners of one or two cars are lowering their price/day just to GET BY and pay their loan and other expenses. They do not care about profit at this time. So there is a price war to the downside. This in turn is causing the larger fleets to do the same... in fact, a lot of mid-large fleet owners are SELLING their fleet to bring in income and to get out of the business!! According to the numbers of my local area - owners of 6 - 9 vehicles are only doing about $80 per month/vehicle @ average of 4 days rented ... to $118 / month / vehicle @ average of 6 days rented on the lower end. On the higher end; $509/month per vehicle @ avg of 4 days rented ... to $763/month per vehicle @ avg of 6 days rented. Remember, those are GROSS figures not NET - you still need to include cost of maintenance, gas, cleaning, repairs, insurance, parking, etc., which is about 67.5% of GROSS. Now, do the math...
Thank you for the information Clint! You explain and present it to me in a way that allows me to comprehend. Quick question though. I want to try to deploy this tactic, but plan on using Navy fed. How would I go about transferring the title to the trust if I get it with a personal loan with Navy fed. After the DMV sends me the title, they’ll want to be added to the it as the lien holder. Do I transfer it to the trust before I add them as the lien holder ?
Ok, just watched again. If I'm looking to finance a vehicle for turo, would you suggest purchasing it with personal credit, then transfer it to a trust or purchase it with a trust?
Sorry I am confused here. You are supposed to own the vehicle is what they say on their website.... you cant have a loan, lien or lease on the vehicle... "Have a valid registration and insurance policy in your name." Would you strategy still work in this case ?
Curious at what point it starts making sense to build such legal structure, because obviously all of this isn't free and this structure will have certain annual cost. For a person who owns 1-10 cars it might not be a good strategy.
Clint, one scenario I didn't see quite covered is if the car was financed through a business loan, so the car is already in the name of my LLC. In this scenario, can I create a separate Biz LLC and lease the car to the Biz LLC so that I don't do Turo business in the asset holding entity where the car is financed? If not, what are my options so that I can separate doing business where the car is owned?
Thank you, great info! I was looking for advice as I own a small fleet and all my cars are registered under my llc. Now if i open a new llc to "lease" my cars, does both llc's need to be filed as S or C corp?
Clint, thank you so much for this incredible information. I've been curious how Anderson Advisors would approach this (I'm currently a Platinum member). I have some follow up questions: #1 I have a loan on one of my vehicles in my name. Based on what you've described, I should be moving that to a trust owned by an LLC's (California) property trust. How can that be done if I don't have the title yet because the title is held by the lender? I would assume that I would only be changing the registration with the DMV from my name to the name of the trust. #2 Will the loan company continue to report payments in my name or in the name of the trust? My goal is to get the loan out of my own name (debt to income ratio problem) so that I can buy another vehicle.
@@ClintCoons Clint, I'm trying to understand is this the best option for a California Turo business. In California, I'll have to pay the franchise tax for both LLCs.
What's the best way to get the vehicle (I own it outright) into my existing WY LLC? Could the PPT strategy be used to have more flexibility of acquiring personal insurance instead of more expensive commercial insurance? Thanks in advance.
If the car isn't that expensive - say $10k value (fully owned no lease or loan) - does it maybe make more sense to keep it in the same LLC? The extra costs and admin of the second LLC may not be worth it if the asset itself has way less value than the one in your example?
excuse me SIR PLEASE HELP ME HOW DO I LEASE MY VEHICLE TO MY OTHER BUSINESS. I have made the lease agreement and I already have a lease agreement that I found online but how do I figure out how much to lease it to myself for? If I don’t know how much profit I will make from the vehicle yet? Also, does it cause any issues if I can’t make those payments to the lesser company?
The registered owner with the legal owner as a loss payee or named insured depending on your carrier. You should also ask about a policy for the legal owner.
Thank you soo much. this is very helpful. can you please make a video on Turo taxes? especially standard mileage deductions and limits Question: 1. if you create the 2 LLCs, which of the LLC is used to file taxes and which LLC benefits the standard mileage deduction? 2. To be eligible for standard mileage deduction, IRS limits to 4 vehicles. Is this limit per individual or per couple filing jointly. Can a couple have 2 LLCs (1 per couple) with 8 vehicles total still use the standard mileage deduction in Turo business?
I am the legal owner of the car, I open an llc to lease my vehicle to the llc which becomes the registered owner. I get sued and they get my llc bank account and my insurance, but could they take my vehicle since the llc is not the legal owner? Here’s where I am confused. If I open 2 llc’s like you suggested, one as the legal owner, the other to lease to to become the registered owner. If I get sued, they get my bank account, my insurance, but they can’t get the car from the other llc as the legal owner is what you are implying.
My insurance company does require commercial insurance. How would you go about leasing the vehicle? Is there is a contract or forms you should fill out between the two companies? Would the business leasing the car ever make income? Should you transfer money in its bank account or something? I really do appreciate your response!
Yes, Yes, and Yes. You must treat this like you would any transaction with a 3rd party. If you wanted to lease a vehicle from Hertz what would Hertz require? Rental agreement (lease agreement) and compensation.
Awesome content as always, Clint. But it does raise a couple of questions: We are looking at purchasing an RV with financing and renting it on platforms like RVezy when we are not using it. I assume this would apply just as it does for car sharing platforms like Turo. My questions is, once the Trust is created and the LLC assigned as the beneficiary, how does the income that the Trust produces by renting out the vehicle flow to the LLC and then to flow to us?
Is the idea of getting a lawyer to be the trustee of ur trust and then having them resign that the creditor would first try to contact the trustee BEFORE actually suing ur business? Because what if my creditor sees u as my trust’s trustee and then does an asset search on u and finds a million things and then thinks u’r the owner of my business and then decides that the business has deep pockets and decides to pursue a lawsuit for whatever reason?
I already have a holding S-corp where I bought the car. I am creating an LLC for the biz and to who I am going to lease it. Would that be the correct idea?
did you pay for engagement or something? So many vague generic comments.. This may be the dragon scale armor for asset protection on turo, turo isn't typically targetting people with fleets that can actually afford or utilize this kind of strategy.
Personal property trust strategy sounds kind of like one of your previous real estate videos will you take it out of the LLC sit-up individual Ilc and make it a disregarded pass through entity and tax filings information never changes
When u have two businesses, a leasing business and Turo business and a car in a trust and that trust is owned by the leasing business, rather than leasing the car to ur Turo business directly, can I lease the car to a separate trust that is owned by my Turo business? That way if I have 10+ car’s they don’t all show up registered under the business’s name publicly
Great video and so informative. One question: even if you don't own the vehicle outright, why not still create the dual entity (one for holding, one for operations), since eventually, as cars are paid off, they may build some equity. Does that not now become an "asset" that a creditor could go after if you are using the lone llc?
@ClintCoons how would you go about titling and registering at the DMV? If you own the vehicles outright, should the holdings company be the lien holder or lessor and create a lease agreement with the operating company and have them on the title as the registered owner?
if u have your turo car in a personal property trust and have ur leasing business as the beneficiary of that personal property trust and that trust is the LEGAL owner of the car. Then u have the TURO BUSINESS LLC (a separate LLC), be the registered owner. Should u register the car through a trust if it's just the registration and NOT legal title? If someone was to want to sue u, if they only saw that the Turo business LLC only held registrations for cars and not legal title, wouldn't that discourage them from trying to sue cause that wouldn't count as actually owning assets?
Can someone please explain 4:45 i totally understand if I out right own my vehicle I set up two LLC's. But how do I "lease" my owned vehicle to my second LLC which is my business?
Hello, thank you for this important information. Can I purchase a car through my e-commerce LLC, create a Rental car LLC then lease that car to the rental car LLC for Turo? How would I go about structuring this the right way if its possible?
Clint- you're the man! Quick follow up- I live in Massachusetts where it costs $500 to start an LLC and $520/year every year thereafter to file my annual report. For the purpose of conversation- let's say I'm making $10K/yr off one car on Turo that I own outright. The vehicle is worth $25k, and would be the only business asset. Based on your system I'd set up two LLC's, costing me $1,040 a year, to protect a $25k asset. I'm not sure this is a good value proposition. Am I thinking about this correctly?
For the dual LLC situation do I literally need to pay for and own two LLC’s? 1 that just holds car assets and 1 that conducts car sharing business on Turo?
thank you so much for this, i have one question please, i have 1 car under my S corp. no.1, how can i lease it to my S corp. no.2? i live Virginia, thanks again
You enter into a lease agreement between the two companies. Keep in mind you will need to register the car under company #2. Thus, company #1 is the legal owner but company #2 is the registered owner.
@@ClintCoonsHi! Quick question. I also live in Virginia, for those of us with cars < $10k, can we complete a lease agreement with our personal vehicles to our LLC?
I'm debating whether or not I should make my WY holding company the trustee of my personal property trusts that I'll be putting my Turo cars in for my Turo business. If I have 10 cars and 10 trusts and everything points back to my WY LLC and they would be able to see all of those trusts, wouldn't they think I had deep pockets? If I used a lawyer to be my trustee and they had the same problem, wouldn't this make them want to come for me?
@@ClintCoons I have a FL LLC that is owned by my WY LLC holding company. Should I use that as the trustee? I’d rather not make a WY LLC just for this purpose. Would the FL LLC be my best option as trustee?
Thanks for informative video! An issue I see when switching over from personal ownership to another entity (LLC) is having to pay sales tax again, am I correct on that?
I have a question about the holding llc leasing the cars to the biz llc, does it have to be a legal lease and how much should i lease the cars for? Becuase i want the bulk of the cashflow to stay in the biz llc, correct?
Yes it has to be a written lease but you do not necessarily need the bulk of the income in the operating entity because the operating entity income is subject to self employment taxes.
These questions assume I will have more than one vehicle What tax election should be made for the Vehicle LLC (if you own the vehicle?) Does each of the entities need to be established in the same state where the car is located? Do you reccomend that each vehicle owned by the Vehicle LLC be held in a cell of a Series LLC (Texas)? Should the Vehicle LLC be a Wyoming LLC to maintain privacy of legal ownership? Should the Biz LLC (Texas) be owned by a Wyoming LLC? Can you register a vehicle in Texas if it is owned by a Wyoming LLC? Is the lease income received by the Vehicle LLC considered passive or active income?
The LLC should be set up in the state where your are registering the vehicle. The Vehicle LLC will be disregarded to the Wyoming LLC that can be set up as a partnership or disregarded LLC. The income generated from the lease of your vehicle to your operating entity will be considered ordinary income or active income depending on whether you are considered to be in the business of leasing personal property..
@@ClintCoons Thank you very much. Follow up question, If both enties generate active income, would it make sense to have both entities, Texas in my case, Vehicle LLC and Biz LLC, set up as disregarded entities owned by the same Wyoming LLC that has a S-corp election? Thanks in advance
What if I already have an established LLC with 5-6 vehicles registered under it already, also a turo profile with many reviews and An all star host status. How do I go about protecting that instead of starting over (turo, re-registering ) and transferring everything to the new LLC?
I'm just a nobody watching the content... but maybe you keep the LLC you have established on Turo, As the operating business. And change the ownership of the cars into the 2nd LLC. Then lease out those cars to the operating LLC. I'd ask someone with legal merit, but that's what I'm seeing from the info here.
S pass any income through to its owners to be taxed at their tax rate and C is taxed as a flat 21% tax rate on its income. Choosing what to file would require an analysis of your over all plan.
You would put together an auto lease agreement. Here is an example: This Vehicle Lease Agreement (the “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of [date] by and between [Lessor Name] (the “Lessor”) and [Lessee Name] (the “Lessee”). Vehicle. The Lessor agrees to lease to the Lessee the following described vehicle (the “Vehicle”): [make, model, year, VIN number, license plate number]. Term. The term of this lease shall begin on [start date] and shall terminate on [end date] (the “Term”). Rent. The Lessee agrees to pay to the Lessor rent for the use of the Vehicle during the Term in the amount of [rent amount] per [month/week/day] (the “Rent”). The first payment of Rent shall be due on [due date] and subsequent payments shall be due on the [same/different] day of each [month/week/day] during the Term. Security Deposit. The Lessee shall pay a security deposit in the amount of [security deposit amount] to the Lessor on or before the start of the Term. The security deposit shall be returned to the Lessee at the end of the Term, less any deductions for damage to the Vehicle or any other charges owed by the Lessee under this Agreement. Use of Vehicle. The Lessee shall use the Vehicle only for lawful purposes and in a careful and prudent manner. The Lessee shall not use the Vehicle for any commercial purposes or to carry passengers for hire. The Lessee shall comply with all laws, rules, and regulations governing the use of motor vehicles. Maintenance and Repairs. The Lessee shall be responsible for the maintenance and repairs of the Vehicle during the Term, including all costs associated with such maintenance and repairs. The Lessee shall keep the Vehicle in good condition and repair, ordinary wear and tear excepted. Insurance. The Lessee shall maintain liability insurance covering the use of the Vehicle during the Term in the minimum amount required by law. The Lessee shall provide the Lessor with proof of insurance upon request. Indemnification. The Lessee shall indemnify and hold the Lessor harmless from any and all claims, damages, or expenses arising out of the use of the Vehicle during the Term, including but not limited to claims for personal injury or property damage. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by either party upon [number of days] days’ written notice to the other party. Upon termination, the Lessee shall return the Vehicle to the Lessor in good condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of [state], without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior negotiations, understandings, and agreements between the parties, whether written or oral. Amendments. This Agreement may be amended or modified only by a written instrument executed by both parties. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.
@@ClintCoons So the vehicle LLC would then be set up as an auto dealership? I am in process of following your steps and forming the vehicle LLC but when asked what type of business it is, I am assuming an auto dealership might be the answer since it will be used to lease vehicles to the business LLC? Btw I love your content and I look forward to catching up on all your videos for my future real estate endeavors
If I have a loan out on the car am I able to transfer the registered owner and the loan would still be under my name? Or would I have to talk to the bank and transfer the loan as well?
Great video! Question: if I do own the vehicle outright, why do I need the dual LLC structure? Can't I keep the *legal* ownership under my own name, and then set the *registered* owner as the business LLC? That way, I have the same asset protection benefits but with a simpler (single LLC) structure. Is it because an LLC is required in order to *lease* the vehicle? Or is it because of something else? Thanks!
To answer my own question: I think it's because you also want to protect the assets from someone suing me personally (not the business LLC). I guess it's less likely that someone will sue the ownership LLC since it just sits there and does nothing, so it's hard to claim it wronged you in some way.
@@bennyn36 If you get sued personally then the creditor can come after your personal assets. If you have an LLC you will have charging order protections to prevent a creditor from taking your LLC.
My brother is worried about the legal implications of purchasing and registering a car in the name of a trust and having the trustee (a business) resign as trustee shortly after and not updating ur registration to the successor trustee with the state. If an accident happens with the car and the business has already resigned, could I get in trouble for doing this and misleading lawyers and what not?
@@ClintCoons I’m specifically talking about not registering the successor trustee as the new trustee with the state so the public knows. Another lawyer said I could get a fine if I do that
@@ClintCoons for the car registration. My trust owns the car. Business 1 is listed as the trustee of the trust in the car registration with the state. He’s saying that if I resign and give the trustee position to the successor trustee and not tell the DMV, I’ll get a fine if they ever found out somehow (a lawsuit) because I’m supposed to update the trust info with the car registration. I’m assuming ur line of thinking is that it’s much better to get a possible fine then to lose all of ur assets in ur business in a lawsuit. I think that’s valid and makes sense
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Thanks Clint, this is great information that i needed. So if my cars still have am lean holder, ie my credit union, do I still need to apply the "LLC/S-CORP" Model? Cars owned by the LLC leased by the S-Corp?
I am just starting out and have 1 car under my personal name. If it’s placed into an LLC, what type of insurance can you expect to get and would cover you while you drive it to get it cleaned, service etc when it is not rented on Turo? Will an insurance company cover 1 car in an LLC, have heard people say you need a fleet before getting coverage.
Would this turo strategy work with a serious LLC ? Because a lot of renters have many vehicles filing LLC fees for each vehicles every year is expensive very expensive
Great video. Should the operating business be structured as a Corp or the holdings company? Also, is it better to have the holdings company own the titles and have the operating business register it under their entity? My holdings company currently holds the titles to all my vehicles, but is also the registered owner. The holding company then leases to the operating business. Should the operating business be the registered owner, and why?
Typically the operating company will be setup to be taxed as an S or C corp depending on your situation. The operating company would be listed as the registered owner.
@Clint Coons Esq. | Real Estate Asset Protection Thank you. What are the benefits of having the operating company as a Corp entity? I think I speak for most in that one of the greatest perks of renting vehicles on these p2p platforms is the tax benefits (i.e. depreciating assets reducing taxable liabilities). I work a W2 job as well, so having this side business helps a ton for a healthy return. How does a Corp structure affect personal tax liabilities?
@ClintCoons how would you go about titling and registering at the DMV? I own the vehicles outright. Should the holdings company be the lien holder and create a lease agreement with the operating company and have them on the title as the registered owner?
@@ClintCoons correct what? That’s the right way to go? That’s what I was going to do. I already own an auto repair under an S-corp. was going to add a DBA for rentals with Turo
@@kylen.6742 Yes, you can do that if you want to keep it under the same business but for liability protection, you might consider setting up a disregarded LLC that is owned by your S-Corp and run the Turro out of the LLC.