MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

If an Influencer Is Selling You This… RUN

4 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Mark Kohler warns against influencers selling asset-protection trusts for $10-$20k by claiming they copy ultra-wealthy families like the Rockefellers. He charges $5k for standard trusts and $5-$8k for charitable remainder trusts, and says you should run from the expensive pitches and find fee-based advisors instead.

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I'll tell you this right now. If anybody listening is getting promoted some sort of crazy asset protection. Oh, this is what the Rockefellers did and wealthy people do. And this influencer said I should do it, too. And it's 10 grand. 15 grand. 20 grand. Holy crap. Run, Forest, run. Get out of there. Please pay my office for even an hour of consulting. Time for us to tell you the pros and cons of any type of trust where they're pitching you that I've never in my career charged anyone more than $5,000 for a trust and would never do that. The charitable remainder trusts are the only ones we charge five grand to eight grand, and those I wouldn't even put in this category.