Ep 140-141, May 2022:

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Today on Wisconsin veterans forward. They say that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. I don't know who they is or are. But they're right. Planning is really important. And there are multiple ways that you can plan. And there are many ways that you can plan correctly. And there are a lot of ways that you can plan incorrectly. And a lot of people, a lot of business owners, a lot of individuals have a very hard time in talking about Kind of post life, either life of a person or life of a business entity or life of an organization transition. When it comes to a transference of assets, intellectual property, Et cetera, cetera, the physical capital assets, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But there are some angles to, to that, that folks don't really consider her.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

And that's what we're gonna be talking about today. Now. Michael wick is a friend of mine we've chatted before, and we chatted about he he's an inheritance investigator, inheritance planning expert. And I remember he explained this to me, cause I was like, isn't this, this is what's. Is inheritance planning the same as succession planning? Or is it the same as estate planning? He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no way different. And he explained it to me and it was super interesting. And I was like, man, more people need to be aware of this. And that's what we're gonna talk about today. It's important for you personally. It's important for your business. It's important. You name it. It's important. You should know about it and we're gonna dive into all this awesome, Tom fooly right after this, you are listening to Wisconsin veterans forward. Wisconsin's premier audio resource for veterans, military families, veteran owned and veteran friendly businesses. Wisconsin veterans forward is brought to you by the Wisconsin veterans chamber of commerce at wiveteranschamber.org, Mike Swick. How are you friend?

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

I'm doing great, Adam, how are

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

You? I'm I'm doing okay. I wanted to be really careful about how I introduced this because I remember like, I remember us talking about this and there's like the delicate line of understanding between like estate succession and inheritance planning and inheritance planning is very different. So can you explain what it is that what is inheritance investigation and inheritance planning? How is it different and why should people care?

Speaker 3:

Okay, so I'm gonna kind of take the first one. Second, the second one first. So inheritance planning, a better known as estate planning is what someone does when they wanna prepare for their demise. However long in the future might be some people don't do it until they get that you know, get your affairs in order notice from their doctor. Some people start doing it when they're in their twenties or thirties and in good health. And will constantly, hopefully if they're doing it right, we'll constantly update it throughout their lives as they go through any major changes. Basically though, in, in a nutshell, what estate planning is, is basically saying, here's what I want to happen to my stuff when I pass away I want, you know, this person to get this share of my estate. I want that person to get my, this much money or that my car collection, whatever the case might be. That's, that's basically what estate planning is. And there are other things that go into as such as, you know, medical power of attorney, if you're unable to make medical decisions for yourself. But estate planning in a nutshell is basically planning for what will happen to your stuff after you pass away,

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Who, who gets my Pokemon cards? You know,

Speaker 3:

You better decide about that

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Because you don't want the family to fight over them or your beanie babies. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3:

Yeah. The question for me is I, I collect college t-shirts in my travels and well, yeah, people ask me who's gonna get them. And I say, you know what? I haven't found, I haven't specified that. It will yet.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Why what, okay, hold on. <Laugh> why did you start collecting college? T-Shirts

Speaker 3:

I just started collecting 'em they were good kind of mementos of my travels. And I just nowadays you can't tell from what, where right now, but for the most part living in Florida now year round and working from home may as well, be comfortable right on <laugh>. So I get to wear my t-shirts and as I start wearing 'em, since COVID started, it's like, you know, may as well start wearing my t-shirts every day. And and now I even get gifts from people where people like, they know I collect them. So they'll send me one as a as a gift or a thank you for, you know, something I might have done. So, yeah.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

What's your favorite campus that you've visited so far?

Speaker 3:

So I don't get 'em all on campus. I tend to, I like to think of the, the smaller campuses. Yeah, I some like some of 'em I like I've been to the campus if I'm driving somewhere and I know I have time and I see a sign for some random college. Well, yeah, I'll go there <laugh> and just stop and walk into the bookstore. And then other ones I'll just get, you know, my, my, my role for if I'm buying in myself is I buying in the states where where the college or university is. So the bigger schools are easier to get, cuz that you can buy you know, if I'm in, I, in Florida buying a university of Florida t-shirts is pretty easy.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Yeah. Not

Speaker 3:

Buying a Stetson university one, you actually have to go to campus and buy it at the bookstore.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Right, right. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Well, cool. That was totally random side tangent, but that, I just found that, that very interesting. So, so we've, we've explained estate planning. Yes. What is the difference then?

Speaker 3:

Okay, so that's the sense of state planning? What I do is I get involved almost always after the person has passed away and the family will come to me and say, we don't know what assets our loved one owned, or we kind of know where things are, but, you know, frankly, we just don't have the time or the ability to, to, to deal with it. Usually the people who are giving executors, the people who are handling the, the estates after some of ate, tend to be family members, which means they've, they're now grieving most likely for hopefully. Not that all people be grieve, but hopefully they're there. I

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Guarantee

Speaker 3:

<Laugh> hopefully they are, hopefully they're feeling some sort of emotional loss if they've lost someone as close to them. Sure. so they're dealing with that. Usually the person who is handling things as the executor tends to be the children. And if you look at the, the average age of someone dying is usually late seventies. That means the children are often going to be in their say forties or fifties, meaning people who are still working still have usually younger children. So they got a lot on their plate add to that, the grieving, and then add to that, the duty of being the executor. Hmm. So we start inherit more with the purpose of helping people get that, get that load off of their, off of their plate, so to speak. So what we do is we will do an investigation versus we'll talk to the family, get an idea of who the decedent was. Mm-Hmm, <affirmative> deceased decedent. It depends on you know, which phrase you like to use. And then we will do the, an investigation, see what assets he or she left behind. And then we'll do all the legwork to get those assets into the hands of the family.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Now, if, if they if the deceased has an estate plan, is there still a need for an inheritance investigator? Like if there estate plan is ironclad is, is there still a need? Is there still stuff that is often missed by people on the receiving end?

Speaker 3:

Yes. That's actually great question. That people there's a big misconception about estate plans, which is that if I, if that you have a will, that you're taken care of or on the flip side, if you don't have a will you're, you know, the, the HES are up, you know, are up the Creek without a pedal. Neither of those is true. And the reason is that a will often doesn't specify what assets somebody owns. For example I thank God, my parents are still alive, but their will basically says that you know, upon each one's death, the spouse gets the other gets everything. And then if the spouse is not around at that time, then everything goes to the grand children, grandchildren in certain percentages. And that's all it says. It does not mention one asset that my parents own. Right.

Speaker 3:

Doesn't mention their house. It doesn't mention any sort of brokerage accounts or checking accounts or whatever it doesn't mention anything. And that is a clear cut valid will. That will, that should be fine. On the flip side, if some of that is I will, because wills don't often list assets, then the, the absence of will is not going to ruin anything. Now. Yes, it is good for, for people to have a list of what they own and separate from the estate plan and to update that on a regular basis because things change. I mean, you know, my father, who's 86 and still works full time. He does a lot of it. He does investing on, you know, on his, on the side, not as his business but he is actively investing. He sometimes is asked to be on boards of companies and for that, he gets stuck. So my father's portfolio, for example, changes all the time. Now I, you know, I'm due to sit down with him pretty soon and kind of go over things and say, Hey, what, and I don't need to know what the amounts are, not on my business at this point. But being that I will be at some point that the executor of his estates I do wanna know where things are not necessarily what everything's worth.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Hmm. What's something that you, what's something that you find that your clients are, are often surprised. I mean, you're the, the program's called inherent more. So if you have a client, that's like, we got a, will we got an estate plan. We're good to go. What, what are some things that you sometimes turn up that they, that weren't on the list that may not have been considered that, that somebody on the receiving end of your services and be like, whoa, good find.

Speaker 3:

So it, it could really be anything. It could be a checking account that, that, that people didn't say anything about. Sometimes people especially older generations, like to kind of keep their money sprinkled among different banks. You know, it comes from the, the, the fear of, of the depression and, and Brun and the banks being closed down. So people just would scatter their, their stuff around different things. Some could be insurance policies sometimes, you know, back many years ago, people would buy insurance policies back when there were door to door insurance salesman, and someone might buy a policy for, and just sticking in a drawer and forget about it. And then decades later that policy is still enforce. So it could be anything. The reason we, we name the company inherit more is because now we're helping people to inherit, but we're helping them to inherit more. <Laugh> it's kind of like when someone has a realtor yes, someone could sell the house themselves, but they have to do all the like work for it. And most likely the realtor is going to bring in a better offer than the person who's gonna get themselves. And most likely more they're gonna get, they're bringing in enough, extra money. That's gonna offset whatever that commission might be.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Right. I, I can't help, but think of like a hiring a tax professional, you can do the taxes yourself, you know, or you can hire somebody. And of course they get a commission, but they're gonna end up finding more probably which will offset the cost of the commission and take all of that weight off of you, which your, your time and your mental health is valuable. Right. So

Speaker 3:

Exactly.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Do you find people in general are like, oh my gosh, I am just so glad <laugh> thank you. You saved my life here.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. There definitely are some of those people who they just it's, like I said, it's beyond them at that. Especially at that particular time, when they've lost a loved one, they're dealing with the, their lives, you know, their, their families, their, their businesses or their jobs. And people just don't, people don't realize just how what a, how much time and emotion and energy being an executor can, can be. You know, like giving example, I have a friend who's the rabbi of a large synagogue in Detroit area, I'm friends with. And when we started the company a few years ago, he was telling me that when his father passed away he said as someone who's a clergy, someone who's who's counsel people through major life moments, he says, I was prepared emotionally for loss. He says, because I've had that front row seat to so many other people losing loved ones.

Speaker 3:

So even though it hurt, you know, terribly, I was at least prepared for the loss. And I knew how to process. He says, nothing prepared me for probate. He said, I never had any idea how much time and energy I was gonna have to put into being the executor until I had to go through it. It's, it's something people don't really talk about too much. Not cause it's so much of a dirty secret. It's just, it's not one of those cocktail party conversations where people sit around talking like, so what's your executor experience? Like,

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

It's an awkward thing to talk about. Yeah. It it's. How do you, how do you broach conversations? I mean, do you just come in after the fact, or is it ever something that's set up? Like we, we know the, the end is near. Is there anything you do on the front end or is it always after someone has died?

Speaker 3:

Usually it's usually it's after someone's died, we do every so often get that call usually kind of sheepishly someone calls us and says, you know, so, and so my whatever parent or uncle or aunt or whatever is in hospice, and we don't think they have much longer you know, is it too early for us, you know, to consult you. And they feel like, it sounds very cruel of them to do so. And I always say like, my, my response to them is, well, you obviously don't wanna start rating the rating, the bank accounts or anything like that. I said, but I don't see anything wrong with, with at least trying to get your arms on where assets are. Partly because if no money has been set aside for funeral you wanna be able to, you know, tap into that funerals. They're getting more and more expensive. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. But it's also, you know, I think it's, it's okay to say, you know, as long as you're not being like, like I said, ish about, you're not trying to get the money, the, the date before the body's even cold. Right. I think it's okay to say, listen, let's just get a jumpstart on this. That's just my opinion. I'm sure there are people who will disagree with me, but you know, that's just me.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Have you ever had a client that was that like the goal that, that you could just tell that they liked, they wanted the Mercedes and they wanted to drain the bank account. I'm sure you probably can't talk about it.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

We never really had, we never had so much, so much like that as, as we've had some people who are just in a really bad situation and, and all they can think about is money. And our, you know, our, our, so my first company, which is still around assets international, we with that coming is we find money. And then we go find the owners, which is the reverse process. Now never, we once had a case where we were working on we had found some money for that belonged to a woman that the state was holding for her. And we, while we were recovering at the, her daughter calls me and it was eight, about eight o'clock in the morning, calls me and says, yeah, my mom died a few hours ago. I'm like, oh, I'm, I'm really sorry to hear that.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

And she said, well, I still be able to get this money. I mean, literally when you say the, you know, you hear the whole saying the body wasn't cold, literally the body wasn't cold <laugh>. And I just, you know, I, I was kind of floored and I just said, you know, yes, you'll be able to, but why don't, why don't you focus? And she asked the question, why don't you really kind of focus on what you need to do right now in terms of getting ready, you know, dealing with your mother's death, the money's not going anywhere are you'll still get it. We also work for you, but let's just, you know and I got the phone and why one of my, I was relating this to one of my employees and, and she was appalled and I said, I'm not angry or appalled. I said, I feel sad like that, that's this person's first reaction that, you know, that either they need so much money or that's just how they process. I mean, everybody processes the loss of a loved one differently. And you know, I, I'm not going to judge someone based on how they're, how they handle things like that.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

You said something that really peaked my interest. You said, finding money, can you can like with your, your other businesses, like the reverse inheritance investigation, are you, are you saying that, like you look for maybe people who have gone through an estate or a will process and maybe in the past and something was missed and you're finding accounts and, and reconnecting people with that, or what does that mean?

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

So there is a ton of money sitting in government treasuries all across the country. State treasurers are sitting on what's called unclaimed property, which is assets that are, that are sitting around for, for a certain period of time. Then the holders of those assets turn over to the state. But we also deal with other stuff such as cases in probate where someone dies and say, just give an example. Person does says I leave $50,000 for my nephew, Johnny, and nobody can find Johnny. So we'll look for Johnny and say, Hey, Johnny, anchor news, we found money for you. So it's not always stuff that some of it is stuff that slips through the cracks of the probate. Sometimes it's the, the owner's still alive. Sometimes the money can belong to major corporations or nonprofits that they just don't know about that just slip the cracks. So we, what we do is we get these, we get lists of money of all these D from all the different government agencies as we can. And then we try to find the owners and get them their money. So

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

<Laugh>, how does that conversation go? Cause if somebody called me and was like, hi, you don't know me, but I just found an account with your name on it. That has $50,000 in it. And all you have to do to claim it is like I would be hanging up. So how

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

Do we so mid sentence we have long we've long said that our biggest competition is not other company is skepticism. And we recognize that that is a natural reaction, which is why early on in our companies you know, inf fate, for lack of better term, we, we spent some time and frankly money to make sure that we were presenting a very credible presentation to people. So we send out a contract to someone. We, you know, we make sure they know we are licensed and bond and private investigation agency. We have a, a plus rating with a better business bureau. We well usually for something the contract's coming on, our stationary, we welcome, you know it's we have a reprint from a Washington post article that mentioned us pretty favorably. And so we make sure that they see that we have a real company now. Yes, we still got people skeptical. We, we joked our office. There was one time we found actually money for someone in Nigeria and, and

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

You're thinking of Nigerian prince,

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

And we were laughing this guy, when we call the guy, he's probably gonna go great. Another one is American saying, I've got a fortune waiting for him. <Laugh>

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

One of those American princes and exactly.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

So, yeah, so it it's something that we definitely have to contend with on a regular basis. But we, you know, we do everything we can to show them that we're a legitimate company.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

So a lot of our viewers and listeners are business owners or entrepreneurs. Do you find that when the deceased is, or was a business owner that, that complicates things as far as inheritance is concerned, are there additional considerations, are there things that a business owner it, it would be advantageous for them to do in their succession planning? Or is, is there a different avenue or is it kind of all the same?

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

So a, a business owner when should always have, even if it's a one person operation should have a variety of succession plan documents first is saying, who gets the company if not, then it's gonna pass to whoever inherits the rest of, of that person's estate. And sometimes you, you know, especially if it's, it's a small business, the owner might say, I, I don't want, I want this particular son or daughter to inherit the business separate from the rest of my assets. So that can be in the will. It could be in the articles of incorporation or other corporate documents. You know, I, I, but I think it's also important for business owner to have a, what we call my business, the kind of break loss in case of emergency, where we have a document that my partner and my VP who is you know, privy to a lot of, not everything, but a lot of the stuff in our business.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

What we should know in case somebody, you know, for one reason or another doesn't show up for work is never shown up for work. Again we used to call the getting hit by a bus thing, but it could just be also you know, someone we win lottery goes, see you later, suckers I'm outta here. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. And cuz my partner and I, and our VP all fill very distinct roles that don't, don't always have much overlap. So for example, my partner handles he's the COO and handles kind of the, the finances and, and stuff like that. So I handle certain other things. So we make sure we have this, we have this document in our, in our cloud that gives all the information with passwords and all that other stuff that, you know, make, and if you're thinking you into it, it's pretty, pretty secure if anyone's getting at any bad, bad motives there.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

But no, so we that's, I would recommend, I know I have a friend who was a business owner who unfortunately just passed away one day, just suddenly from a heart attack. And some friend and his wife had zero clue about anything in the business. And he, it was a small sh it was a small operation, but it still took some friends, especially with accounting background, some serious amount of time to get into everything and untangle everything and figure out just, just to keep the doors open. Mm. And the lights on was, was such a burden on, on, on people. And so it's you know, I, I think it's really incumbent, even if you're a one person operation to have that document and at least have one other person know where that document is that that says here's how to, here's how to, here's, how to keep things running. If I'm ever gone.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Do you anticipate there being a change in some of what you do with the kinda advent of decentralized finance, cryptocurrencies NFTs? We had a guest talking about NFTs last week. Have you run into that yet? You know, maybe the family doesn't know that the deceased had like five Bitcoin is, is acquiring that a little bit different or haven't you run into that yet?

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

Haven't run into it yet, but so I'm not too well versed in Bitcoin, but I know last year I attended a, a virtual estate planning webinar on Bitcoin. Hmm. And the big takeaway I got from that is keep hold of that key or make sure some, make sure someone has that key. Yeah. Cause if you don't have it, it's gone forever. Right. So I think it's one of those things that it's, it's not really an issue for us because the family has, has the information, they have the key, they don't need us. And if they don't have the key, there's nothing we can do. Interesting. So, yes, I mean, obviously we would, if there's a, if the, if some of like, for some, our cases, the person has passed away years ago and some cases the person had just recently passed away.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

If we, if they left the computer behind, then we can get into the computer and kind of poke around and see what information we find, cuz we're always wanted to see like what assets might be out there. So we'll look for information on that and if we find it great but I don't think it, it really is established like, yes, it could make things complicated in the future if people are putting a lot of their money into it. Also a lot of our, our states are dealing with our people who tend to already be in their seventies or eighties and that's a stereotype, but I think Bitcoin is much, is much more of a young man, a young man or woman's game at this point still. Right.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Still. Yeah. Not for long though. I think it's, you know, yeah. It's becoming more, more popular. What did what did we not touch on? You know, we, we're giving kind of a broad overview and I think people now understand that, you know, inheritance and inheritance investigation is really important post someone becoming not alive anymore. <Laugh> and it can be very, very helpful. Especially if you're in a grieving process and it can simplify all of that. What, what did we leave out? What's what's are there any additional kind of tidbits of information that people should know about what you do?

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

I think it's, it's not, not only with us, but you know, we're talking this earlier about hiring someone to do what, what you can't do is that we live in, in era of specialization and, you know, you have to decide for yourself how much you wanna take on there. There are so many other service providers in probate, which for those not familiar probates the process for distributing someone's assets after they passed away. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. And first of all, first and foremost, there's the attorney. Some people figure they'll save themselves, you know, however much money doing doing probate themselves, rather higher an attorney. I if they can do it great. Some, some

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Not advisable generally.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

It's it's, it really depends on how, how complicated the estate is and how much time someone has to do it because probate, most people aren't because most people are not executors more than once or twice in their lives. It's the matter of how much do you wanna invest in, in the learning curve? Sure. When you're only gonna do this once, whereas probate attorneys, some handle thousands and thousands of estates, so they can get things done a lot faster on second

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Place and, and your time is valuable and, you know, right.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

And and the same thing goes for, as you mentioned, accountants, you know, you might, you know, there might be issues you don't think about, like, for example, if the deceased had income in his or his LA his or her last year of life, you have, if you're the executor you're responsible to, to file a tax return for, for them the fact that they're no longer on to pay for it. So if someone earned a hundred thousand dollars in a year and then died during the year, you as the executor have to file a tax return, if you UN file that yourself find, but you might need to get a CPA. Same thing goes for, if you have assets that you've, you know, items you might find with, like, for example, the, the Pokemon cards or the beanie babies. Sure. you might just say, oh, my, my neighbor offered me, you know, a few hundred bucks for them.

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

Do you, are you sure that that's the best price? Or do you wanna consult with someone who specializes in selling those things? There are, we live in a, in era of special specialization mm-hmm mm-hmm <affirmative> and as if the internet has taught us anything, it's that there's somebody who shares a, a passion or an interest in pretty much everything. Right. So, you know, I always say like, you know, take your time. The other thing I would also say is if you don't know if the, where the will is, if you think there's a will and you don't know where it is search for it, don't just say, well, I haven't seen it. So therefore there must not be one, right. Search for it high and low. I, you know, I wouldn't say you have to necessarily tear apart walls, but I'd say, you know, look a little harder than just you know, in the drawers of the desk, the person used, you know, you might wanna take, if there's a family Bible, open it up. Some people put papers in there. Some people put stuff on the back of paintings or whatever. So you know, you want, because it's better to get that will sooner rather than later. Cause if you find that later, it could totally disrupt the entire process. You could be, you know, could totally change who's inheriting.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

And if you are the person with the will tell your family where you keep it, I think it might save everybody a lot of hard heartache. <Laugh>

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

Exactly. Yeah, definitely. You know, have multiple copies mm-hmm <affirmative> and let them know if, if not giving it to them and at least 'em know where to find it when, when the time is DEC when time comes.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Absolutely. Well appreciate all of your insights today is really interesting stuff and really you know, relevant for all of us, cuz everyone's gonna die and everyone is gonna know somebody who passes away. Probably everybody, at some point in their life will have to be an executor. And a lot of our business owners should be thinking about succession planning and, and, you know, including those assets in their post life plans. So yeah, really important stuff. How can people get in touch with you?

Michael Zwick - Inherit More:

So you can find this on our website, inherits more.com. My email is wick and inherit more.com. You can find me on LinkedIn. I'm pretty active on there. So, and if, especially, if you're connected with Adam, then actually be pretty easy to find and you know, feel free to reach out to me, send me connection requests and do whatever it can to help you up there. I see the, the most can I get it right? Yep. That's right.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

Excellent. Well, good stuff. I'll ask you to hang on the line for just a minute. I'll I'll, I'll catch you after the show here, but there you have it folks very important, very relevant stuff. It is money month after all we're talking about money this month, next month is tech month. So right now money and, and what could be a more important consideration for your money than you or others post life plans. And I can't, I, you know, obviously do your own research and, you know, make decisions that are that are obviously best for you personally, having a specialist, you know, someone like Michael and his team who do this all the time, not only, yes, you maximize the benefit and you also alleviate maybe some conflict between you and other parties who think that you're on the receiving end of this set or the other. But also it's exceptionally stressful to go through this process and having having someone help you through the process can solve all of those things or can at least mitigate some of that stress. So something to consider check out in here, more.com. Like I said, he's, he's a buddy of mine. That's great information. Appreciate everybody tuning in you know, the spiel, same time, same place next week. See you then.

Adam Braatz - WVCC:

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