RA or DIY covers one decision for US LLC owners: whether to act as your own registered agent or pay a service to do it. That is the whole remit, one subject rather than a little of everything.
Scope
In scope: what a registered agent is and whether you need one, how to do the job yourself, what an agent service provides for its fee, and how individual services compare. Good places to start are What Is a Registered Agent, and Do You Need One?, How to Act as Your Own Registered Agent Properly and What You Are Actually Buying From an Agent Service.
Out of scope: adjacent subjects that would broaden the site without making it more useful, and news coverage, which goes stale faster than it can be maintained.
How it is written
Where one option is better than another for a given job, that is said in words, with the reason attached. It is never expressed as a number.
- No scores out of ten, no star ratings, no tier boards and no leaderboards.
- No description of testing that did not take place.
- Pricing and feature claims are checked against the vendor’s own pages, and dated where the page says so.
- Where something is genuinely unclear, the page says it is unclear rather than guessing.
Funding
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Limits worth stating
RA or DIY is published information, not advice for your particular situation. Nothing here is a recommendation tailored to you, and no page can know the constraints you are actually working under.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads as more confident than the evidence supports, write to [email protected] and say so. A link to the page that contradicts it is the fastest way to get it fixed.