thank you If the property was purchased in your name, and you transfer it with no consideration toa LLC, a good attorney would pierce that veil like warm butter since the LLC and yourself are not acting separately but jointly since you gave your LLC a property for no consideration. 

With that said, I'm not a lawyer and can't comment about piercing the veil. 

You own the real estate in an LLC so that could still limit exposure to business assets and not you personally but that is really circumstantial based on the fact pattern and jurisdiction and whether level of negligence opens the door to piercing the corporate veil (again very jurisdiction specific and circumstantial).I am a proponent of owning investment real estate in LLC's for the sole reason it keeps your name out of the docket more than if real estate is owned in your personal name and they are good tools for business planning.

Pierce is much more level headed.

My understanding is that the LLC can easily be pierced anyway so that is why I opted for Umbrella Insurance.  

IMHO, clearly pierced the corporate vail here.  

Pre-trial in 9/9 and docket sounding will be October 14th.This trial is going to be very interesting as around 30% of the debt relates to work performed on personal property, so it could prove the corporate veil has been pierced.

This means that you may need to pay registration and filing fees in at least 2 states if you don’t buy CA property as a CA resident.Any lawsuits should in theory be limited to the assets of the LLC and not your personal assets (assuming you run the LLC appropriately and the corporate veil is not pierced, some debate as to SMLLC).

You could probably figure it out yourself - however, the purpose of the LLC is to give you additional protection and if they are not set up correctly they are easy to pierce if you run into a legal situation - at which point you've defeated the entire purpose of the LLC in the first place.

It’s much harder to pierce an LLC that has multiple partners and is ran as a true separate entity.