This includes all of your trip information: where you went, who you traveled with, your "profile", etc.

There are no controls over this, so anyone can access your information at any time, and nobody else will know.

... Thanks for that interesting information, Paul!

A trick I learned from an investigator is to take a vacation to Vegas and convert your currency to poker chips. I'm sure there's some down sides to this method, like having to go back to Vegas to convert back to currency. Are there other risks I might be missing?

Is there some way to to avoid having my name show up when signing car registration papers and escrow papers on a home? Thanks in advance for your help and advice.

... I prefer MEMBER. Most have single owners and need not be mentioned by name on a tax return.

SOMEONE must always sign for any corporation, LLC or trust. That does not mean your name will show up on a title, however.

"The P.O. now asks for ID from all people who will get mail in the box, less than a year ago this was not the case. Any suggestions?"

The P.O. now asks for ID from all *adult* people who will get mail in the box. When I recently opened a P.O. Box (as related in #6535), I provided I.D. for my real name, and also gave the name "Hamish" for a young child, "age 3". There is, as yet, no requirement to provide identification for children under the age of 18 when opening a P.O. Box.

I have not - yet - actually used this Post Office Box to receive mail, either in my real name or in the name of "Hamish." But I don't expect to encounter any problems when I do.

He closely scrutinized the passport and said "I need an ID from the United States". A weird request, seeing as how my passport has "USA" directly above my photo and "United States of America" on the cover (which he did look at by the way).

I told him a passport was an official Federal Government issued photo ID. He said he needed a drivers license so he could swipe the magnetic strip through his computer and put a copy of my drivers license photo in their computer!!!!!

I repeated my remark about a passport being a Federal Govt. issued ID and he dropped it. I have never had this happen before and I travel regularly. I had stayed at a Best Western in a different city the previous evening and they didn't ask for an ID, just the credit card. I hope other hotels don't start enacting this "policy".

... Yet another good reason to never use a DL for ID. They can't swipe a passport.

BTW, I once showed a passport at a bank, in order to cash a check. The teller said she had never seen a passport before!

Just wanted to share my experience with those of you who may be skeptical or even afraid to try to title your vehicle into a LLC.

I recently ordered a new LLC through Rosie--a great and very easy experience, by the way--with the sole intention of putting our vehicle into the LLC. We are in the process of becoming invisible, this was a pivotal first step with regard to making our assets less visible.

The registration was due, we had vanity plates and the address on the title was outdated. The DMV here in San Diego is notorious for making things as difficult as possible. We have spent hours there in attempts to satisfy their requests (my husband likes old, classic cars and we have restored more than one vehicle that had dropped out of their systems after a number of years of non-registration.)

So, instead, we went to AAA--I didn't even know they had DMV services there!

My husband was absolutely certain we'd get hassled. 100%. I think he went with me simply to see how long it would take before I walked out without doing anything more than paying for the registration.

Here's the good news: We were there less than thirty minutes and it was SIMPLE!!

They did not ask for identification of any sort for the LLC or for my husband and/or me, did not send someone to the parking lot to verify the VIN on our car or to verify the plates we were turning in. Two different women ended up helping me since there was one going on break and neither one even questioned my scrawl of a signature (none of that "who are you? the owner, the member, the manager, the whatever?") after putting in the LLC as the new owner.

Easy, easy, easy!

We paid the registration, gifted the car to the LLC for fair market value, changed the mailing address to yet another address that we do not live at (yet can receive mail through), turned in the vanity plates and got new plates and tags all at the same time.

Hope that helps a bit. Once again, a huge THANK YOU to JJ for all the great information. We're breathing better already.

My husband and I have been through some very negative and costly things we should never have had to experience (embezzlement, fraud, disgruntled ex employees who know where we live, people using our professional licenses without our knowledge...the past year has been a nightmare) so moving and dropping out of site has become a true necessity.

As an aside, it is true that our parents get smarter the older we get: My dad had it right years ago--he paid cash for everything, no one EVER had our phone number or home address (and he had a six foot fence around the perimeter of his two acres and we always had at least two large dogs), and he was always very, very private about things. I can certainly appreciate that now.

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Submitted Link #1: http://www.harvellandcollins.com/community.htm

(1) identify officers, Members, and/or Managers?

(2) Are there no taxes to pay on a New Mexico LLC ?

... 1) No.

... 2) No, as long as you do NOT do any business in that state.