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The following quote is from Duncan Long’s book Protect Your Privacy:

“According to the FBI, a Washington, D.C police officer was attempting to extort $10,000 from a married man who had visited a gay bar. The officer had apparently employed a law-enforcement computer system to identify automobile license plates of cars that had been recorded as being outside the bar, and then linked the plates to the names and addresses of the vehicles. He then cross-referenced to see if the men were married, and if they were, he attempted to extort money from them. According to the FBI, the officer threatened to send photos showing the men at the bar to wives and employers if the victims didn’t cough up silence money.”

You may never visit a gay bar but think of the many other dangers of allowing your name (and sometimes even your home address!) to appear on your vehicle’s registration. Just one example: You innocently park in front of a home known to harbor a meth lab. You may get a visit from the police. Or perhaps the home is a so-called safe house for a Muslim terrorist cell. You may get a visit from the FBI. Or suppose the home is that of women who’s being stalked by her insanely jealous ex-husband—you might even get beaten up!

Each of our five vehicles is titled in a separate New Mexico LLC. The address for each New Mexico LLC is in Spain’s Canary Islands. We often lend our vehicles to friends. What if one of these friends would happen to park in front of the wrong home or the wrong bar? As Alfred E. Neuman would say, “What? Me worry?”

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There has been a lot of confusion about this. Perhaps I can clear it up.

1. If you order a custom New Mexico LLC, you can ask to have no address listed at all. This is not a good idea because New Mexico will assume you are starting a business in that state. You will therefore get letters and more letters requiring you to fill out state forms for employees, etc.

2. You may also order a custom New Mexico LLC and list your own street address or another street address you use as a ghost address. If you use your own address, there goes your privacy! And even if you use a nearby ghost address, you will start getting junk mail because that address will be picked up from the NM public Web site.

3. If you order a pre-formed (shelf) New Mexico LLC, it will of course have the address of a “principal place of business” on it already. If you order from Rosie, for example, the Articles will show an address in Spain’s Canary Islands. Is that a good idea? Yes, for two reasons:

(a) Junk mail will go to the Canary Islands and be destroyed there.
(b) No one will have a clue as to your true address.

4. If the Articles on your NM LLC show Rosie’s Canary Islands address, can you then use that address for your own purposes? Absolutely not. Once Rosie sells the NM LLC to you, you must then use whatever your own address is for receiving mail.

Consider this example: You sell your car to Joe Jones. Your own address is on the title. When Joe fills out the section for “Buyer,” can he list YOUR address? Of course not. He must list an address that belongs to him. That is where the title will be sent.

5. What about the Santa Fe address of the resident agent—can you use that address for anything? Answer: NEVER! Any unofficial mail sent to the agent’s address will be returned to sender, and he may then choose to resign as your resident agent.


CONCLUSION: When you use your NM LLC to purchase a vehicle, buy real estate, or for any other purpose, you are not authorized to use either of the two addresses listed in the Articles. Instead, you should use an alternate address of your own. If you do not have a good alternative address, consider obtaining a ghost address from Rosie Enriquez. She offers addresses in Canada, Alaska, or Spain’s Canary Islands.

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If you plan to order a limited liability company and you even remotely suspect that someday an enemy might try to track your company down, here's what to do:

1. Choose a state other than your own in which to form the company. New Mexico (unless you live there) is the absolute best because no annual information returns are required. Remember, a private investigator (PI) will first check the records in the state where you live. If your LLC does not show up there, he is then forced to search among the other 49 states. (His first three choices will probably be Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming, so it's better not to form a limited liability company in any of those states.)

2. When you title your home, car, truck, trailer, camper, motorcycle or snowmobile with an LLC, use a faraway ghost address. In fact, many states allow you to list an address in another country, which is why an address in Spain is offered on my website.

3. Use a generic name, i.e., a name so common that it is used in dozens of states. If you are looking at a list of shelf LLCs, for example, watch for names like NORTH STAR, BLUE MOON, or RED RIVER. Just imagine the problem a PI will have with a common name. There will be identically-named LLCs in dozens of states! Which one is yours? The PI will not have a clue, especially if you are using a faraway ghost address!

4. Last but far from least, use a separate LLC for each purchase. That way, if one of the bad guys discovers that your old Camry is listed in XYZ LLC, at least his subsequent search for that name will not bring up the LLCs that own your home, your boat, and your aircraft. (Shameful commercial pitch--contact me before the end of this month for the lowest-ever prices on New Mexico limited liability companies!)

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To form a New Mexico LLC, the only information required for the Articles of Organization is:

(1) the name of the company and the address of the principal office.

(2) the name and address of the resident agent (which must be a street address in New Mexico), and

(3) the duration of the LLC (often December 31, 2099)

A New Mexico LLC need not include the names of members. The mailing address of the principal office can be anywhere in the world. And unlike all other states, a New Mexico LLC does not require an annual report. Thus, changes in membership take place in total darkness.

How do you use a New Mexico LLC? You title your car, boat, plane, mobile home, travel trailer, motorcycle or real estate in the name of the New Mexico LLC instead of your own name. And what does the NM LLC cost?

At low as $325 at this site, which includes not only the charter and the Articles of Organization, but three years paid ahead for the New Mexico LLC’s resident agent, as well as a foreign address for your "principal place of business." (Records, therefore, cannot be subpoened!)

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