Most business owners create entities but fail to maintain them properly. That mistake can expose you to liability and weaken your asset protection.
In this clip, John Hyre explains why annual meetings and strong documentation matter — even if your attorney says, “it’s not in the statute.” The truth? Courts care about the story you can prove.
Maintaining your LLC or corporation isn’t just about compliance. It’s about building a credible narrative that protects your assets, supports your tax strategy, and shows you run your business with integrity.
Video Transcript:
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Entities are like children. They’re so
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fun and easy to create and everyone’s
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into that. But once you’ve got one,
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there’s a lot of work involved.
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Yeah.
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I’d rather see someone with four
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entities properly maintained than the
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structure of, for example, with real
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estate people, one entity per property.
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They’ll never maintain that many. It’s
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just not going to happen.
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Yep. And then they’re opening themselves
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up to all kinds of liability.
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An annual meeting is an important thing.
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And and the attorneys who don’t study
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the law will say, “Well, it’s not in the
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statute.” Have you read the case law?
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There’s a lot of it. Well, now we
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haven’t because there’s a lot of it. Oh,
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I’m sorry. The work. Yeah,
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forgive me.
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Yeah,
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but there is a lot of case law and it’s
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pretty consistent. It weighs things
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there. There are other issues in terms
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of what you need to do to properly run
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an LLC or a corporation. But those
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annual meetings make a difference. It’s
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a perception game. We are building a
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narrative.
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Yep. Story
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to persuade someone we’ve never met and
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hope never to meet,
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a judge. But if we do meet, I got a
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story and it’s a good one and it’s a
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real one. And that narrative of how we
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do things tax-wise, how we do things
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asset protection wise, and also just
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personal honor and how you run a
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business, all of that matters greatly.
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Yes. When push comes to shove.