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

Stop Paying Double LLC Fees 💸

29 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Mark Kohler explains why you shouldn't form an LLC in your home state and then register it elsewhere. If your rental property is in Georgia, form the LLC there instead of Ohio, so you pay one state's fees, not two. You'll need a registered agent address in Georgia, which a virtual mailbox can provide.

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Warning, where you set up your LLC is almost as important as how you set it up and maintain it. 'Cause if you set it up in the wrong place, it's not going to give you protection either. Let's say you're going to buy a rental property in Georgia and you live in Ohio. Okay, well, do I need an Ohio LLC for that? No, I need an LLC in Georgia. Now I could set up an Ohio LLC and register it foreign in Georgia, but now I'm paying for a fee in Ohio and a fee in Georgia, and all I'm doing is using it in Georgia. In those situations, I would just set up a Georgia LLC to begin with. You also need to have a registered agent address in Georgia, and you may want some privacy having mail forwarding, kind of a virtual mailbox so that your address isn't everywhere. Also important considerations. But at the heart of the issue, you need that LLC set up where you're doing business.