Mark Kohler explains why listing your home address as your LLC's registered agent exposes your personal information to clients and vendors. Fixing it is cheap and simple: restate the LLC with a professional registered agent or use a separate mailing address instead.
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Now you've been running your business for how long? 6 months, 6 years, and your home address is out there, and you may have put yourself down as the registered agent with your home address. And mistake number 7, drum roll please, you put your home address on all the documents for your LLC. Now at the time, that may have made sense. It was simple and easy. You didn't have a mail forwarding address, you didn't have a PO box, you didn't have an office. Now at the time, it probably didn't mean anything. Clients, customers, tenants, vendors, We do want to have a little privacy, and putting your home address out there on all the LLC documents, not a good privacy move. But the solution isn't that expensive, and it's quite simple. You restate the LLC with a different registered agent than you, with the proper address that's not your home, and maybe even a mailing address for the company. Lots of options, and it can be very affordable.