One of the hardest assets to protect is real estate. You can’t move it, you can’t hide it, what else can you do? Real estate is something you buy, in another country or your own, with money under your name. The land is put under your name. Everything has your name around it. So how can you possibly keep real estate safe? Do offshore accounts even help? This article will help establish the four key goals to keeping real estate safe and some basic instructions on how to go about doing so.

To start out with, the four basic goals of keeping real estate safe are:

·        To keep the owner of the real estate, usually you, unknown. This is, as shown before in the introduction, harder than it may seem. It is not, however, impossible to do. Panama offers anonymous foundations and corporations which you can control under the table that can own these real estate assets. This is a better offer than any other country in the world can offer.

·        If you cannot take away your ownership of the real estate, real estate is tough as many people may know you own a piece of land or a house, you can always take away its value so no one wants it. This method is called stripping and you can find an article that describes in full how to go about doing it.

·        You should also gain a lawyer you can trust that will not have to put his own neck on the line to save yours. What does this mean? For the first point, you need a lawyer because only they can make sure you are protecting your assets properly and are not putting yourself in dangers way. They can draft documents, look over agreements and represent you in court. In addition, you get confidentiality with lawyers so they do not have to give you up in court. For the second point, you want to hire a lawyer from the offshore country of choice, in this case Panama. In the United States a smart prosecutor may find a way to force your lawyer, if American, to give up privacy. Not in Panama.

·        The final goal is to make your real estate so hard to track and pin on you and so worthless that it won’t be worth it for anyone to ever even go after it. People who take others to court are often paying thousands for their legal fees and cannot afford to drag a case on forever. If you have a tough case to crack, they will settle or move on to someone easier.

So what is the basic method of fulfilling all these goals and especially the fourth one? Well it really is not that complicated. You take all of your real estate that no one knows about and give it to a foundation in Panama that you pay for. This foundation is owned by no one and will follow your exact instructions on how to sell or maintain your real estate. Your known real estate should be stripped of value by borrowing money against it from the bank. This will make it worth nothing to a zealous ex-wife or a financial foe who may try to pursue it in a legal case. These two actions will make taking you to court very unpleasant and will not reap rewards to your enemies.