Cana business be registered to a self storage unit?
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Cana business be registered to a self storage unit?
Starting up an at home business with no customers or anything like that, I will be providing a service to others at their homes. I currently rent and my landlord’s insurance will not let me use this address to register the business. Just wondering what my other options are?
Asked on February 17, 2011 under Business Law, Utah
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
First, don't confuse registering the business--which is just paperwork--with using a business address. You could register it at your home address--or at a family member's home address--but not use that address for mail, correspondence, etc. Instead, you could use a P.O. box. Simply registering a busineness has no impact on insurance. However, where you conduct your business will. You landlord may refuse to allow you to actually conduct the business out of your home because his policy may not allow him to. (Residential policies do not cover business activities.) Assuming you don't and won't do any work at your rental unit, register the business using that or any other real addresss--not a storage unit--you want; use a P.O. Box for correspondence and to provide an address for the business; and actually run the business/do the work at clients' homes and at internet cafes, Starbucks, Barnes & Nobles, etc. I've run businesses out of public locations before, and with good wifi access and a smart phone, it's easy.
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