US LLCs registered agent

wyomingagents.com/ is among the cheapest registered agents for US LLCs (not just Wyoming - you can choose any state).
Never had a problem with them, highly recommended!

CEO said:

Do you use their address when you open a bank account?

with some banks you can do that, with others you need to have a physical address

CEO said:

How to solve that?

with some creativity, and/or photoshop. An address is just an address.

Mercado4 said:

As for address, I would suggest setting up a virtual office in the same city. Some agents will allow you to use their address, but as mentioned above banks do not like it that much.

Most (but not all) virtual office addresses are in the same database used by banks.

Mercado4 said:

I would strongly suggest avoiding REGUS - my experience with them was in the league of Dracula horror story.

Never had any problem with Regus, but I never used it for a registered address.

Mercado4 said:

I am quite happy with the current provider we have in Las Vegas, under $1,000 per year - ViewPointe (www.viewpointecenter.com)

$1k is a lot of money. With WYOMING REGISTERED AGENT - $25 A YEAR TOTAL you pay $75 for their registered agent service in NV.

Mercado4 said:

Yes $1 K is not a pocket change, true. However, when I set up the LLC the bank (brick and mortar) would not accept an agent's address as the real one, so we had to
go out to find a virtual office, which was acceptable. And Las Vegas prices are obviously a lot higher then in Wyoming.

If that's only a requirement for the bank, you can book an airbnb if you really need to receive some papers from it, otherwise give it a random address.

Mercado4 said:

True, Johnny, but in my view it all depends on one's priorities and constraints. If the main driver is the lowest budget possible, then yes that might work - if one can figure out how to arrange mail forwarding from the said airbnb in case your bank sends you something important. And while the probability of this event is very small, it is not zero. So one is running a risk of potentially losing the account.

All banks should have a paperless option

Mercado4 said:

I prefer to build things for the long run, and look at price performance. From this viewpoint, and more importantly from the viewpoint of my client, it was imperative to cross all the t's and dot all the i's before approaching the bank re: account opening. We even have a plaque in the virtual office space so if someone from the bank wanted to doublecheck - we are there. So yes it is just under $1 K a year but there is at least sense of security that our bank will not have issues with the mailing address (both the virtual office and the bank are less than 5 miles apart).

Of course if makes sense if the setup is that local.

Mercado4 said:

It is also important to keep in mind that IRS also wants a permanent mailing address when applying for EIN (corporate accounts only).

IRS is fine with the registered address being that of the agent or a virtual office and they can send mail anywhere.

Mercado4 said:

Just FYI - for this particular company, I had set up a Nevada LLC (this was their preference), opened a brick and mortar bank account, opened 4 EMIs accounts just for the sake of redundancy, set up an accounting services (sounds easy but it was actually a lot harder than I thought), set up an attorney and basically created their own infrastructure so they can carry on business in the US and globally.

Sounds like a solid setup for doing business domestically.

Rick said:

Pro tip I heard recently for cheaper and better addresses: check a mailbox provider website (plenty out there) and then do a USPS check to see if it is registered as a mail handling facility. If not, then you found a good address for cheap (often roughly 20 USD per month). Even some expensive virtual addresses may not be easily accepted if they are marked as such (as it then reads in their system like it is a registered agent address / etc).

This works until it works.
The databases are constantly updated, so there’s always a chance that your clean address will later be rejected.

Rick said:

Well but at least you then paid 250 USD instead of 1000 ;)

Remember I pay $75 :D Plus a few bucks if photoshop is required 😏
But I understand someone might want peace of mind and need something solid for domestic US business, in which case $1k can make sense.

Mercado4 said:

In addition to this, one of our EMIs have already asked for a proof of current address, i.e. the copy of the legal contract. No problem, as we renew it every 6 months (you can go monthly with ViewPointe but I find it easier to prepay for 6 months). Unsure how they would react with an ad hoc arrangement.

Utility bill or bank/credit card statement. Nothing that photoshop can't fix.