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by ScottDLS
Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:59 pm
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Topic: Wanting recommendations for a Texas Registered Agent
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Re: Wanting recommendations for a Texas Registered Agent

Best I can tell no requirements other than a Texas address, but I like the scanning services you mentioned. Also Texas SOS, comptroller, and even courts have very good efiling services. You can amend your articles, file franchise tax, and even initiate civil cases online. My attorney told me to do as much as possible myself and only pay him for the unusual stuff. I even changed my LLC to a Series LLC without him. I am just using him to do real property contracts and closings where I’m not represented by an broker.
by ScottDLS
Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:25 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Wanting recommendations for a Texas Registered Agent
Replies: 14
Views: 2148

Re: Wanting recommendations for a Texas Registered Agent

G.A. Heath wrote:
RoyGBiv wrote:I don't think you have any problem being your own RA. Lots and lots of single-employee companies out there. If a RA had to be in the office all the time, how would an owner/RA ever travel out of town or make sales calls.?

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

The function of the RA is so that a company registered in TX has a physical address for service of documents, notices, etc within the state. I don't believe there is any requirement for the RA to be always or even regularly available during business hours. Just reachable at a Texas physical address.

I suggest you call the Secretary of state office and confirm. It's pretty easy to get a live person on the phone over there.

https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/regist ... faqs.shtml

Good luck with the new business!
I understand what your saying, but the issue is I am almost never at the address during regular business hours which does disqualify me. Being at the physical address is required so that a process server can find you if need be.
The only requirement for a Registered Agent is that it have a physical address in Texas. I was the RA for my own Texas corporation from 2011 to 2017, a good portion of which I spent out of town and outside the US. If you have physical address in Texas that’s all you need to by your own agent. If the process server can’t find you except on alternate Tuesdays at 100am on a full moon...it doesn’t matter. As a practical matter you can pay one of the big agents like The Company Corporation $100 or so to have you agent address in Austin. I do that for my LLC to keep my personal address out of public filings with Texas SOS and my business address is a UPS store mail drop. For a small rental real estate business that I do on the side, I get about 3-4pieces of mail from my RA a year, and a,few docs from the IRS. All at my mail drop. Main reasons for having an RA is if you register to do business out of state and you don’t have a physical address. If you don’t want to do it yourself, just go on legal zoom or incorporate dot com or something and you’ll find tons of ads.

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