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.
Labels: ghost address, New Mexico, New Mexico limited liability company, New Mexico LLC, New Mexico registered agent, principal place of business
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 1:38 AM
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