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>Assembling property for development

This is definitely the most common reason for anonymous LLCs. For elaboration, think about buying up a ton of crappy property in a specific area. Doing it all under a single LLC with traceable names can cause property agents and banks to notice and raise prices / hold out on existing property that the developer may need.




It predates the LLC era, but this was how Disney bought up its huge swaths of land just outside Orlando to build Walt Disney World.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-shell-companies...




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