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how can i find documents for my llc or ein first off i'm not your lawyer i'm not your attorney i'm not your cpa i'm just providing generally available information from my years of experience uh second like subscribe comment below if you're getting value out of this video um so i didn't really know how to answer this question from the perspective of just someone that doesn't know where their documents are or someone that's a customer of ours so if someone is a better legal customer and they just don't know where their documents are you just go to betterlegal.com click log in go to your live dashboard you can see all of the information that we have you can change that information if you don't like the name of your business anymore you can just change it in the field there it will pop up a prompt that says this is how you change the name we'll do it for you here's the price here's the state filing fee here's a little bit more information and then you can just boom take care of it you want to add a new manager operator to the business you want to remove a member of the business you want to change your address you can do all that you want to find your ein it's already there uh all of the information let's say you are with us for 10 years and you make a lot of changes uh to the legal documents and whatever it will all be there in perpetuity so we'll have a log of all that so if you use us you don't really have to worry about that because you can just go to the website log in we've always got it but if you just lost your information that's more complicated uh if it's a state-related thing it's not that bad you just go to secretary of state's website again you can go to betterleal.com and look under resources there's a name search thing and it'll show you all 50 states and links to where you can do the name search most states will have the pdf of the original paper filing on file and they'll be public so you can actually go find anybody's llc um as long as the state supports this and just type in the name of the business your business and uh once you get there you just download the pdf that's the original filing will be public most of the time so that's how you get the llc document from the state um if you can't find it you can always call the the secretary of state they're there to help you i will say that they are sometimes on the website it's not updated i have called myself uh the new york secretary of state waited on the phone for an hour i said hey have faxed this document to you and they said what fax did you use and i said i gave gave them the number and they said oh that's not the right fact somewhere i said it's on your website they go yeah it just hasn't been updated in a while that's just how these government entities are and this is why it's such a pain and why it's so beneficial to you someone like us better legal uh if you so so yeah you can just call the secretary of state you'll wait on the phone for a little bit uh same with the irs the irs is a lot harder because it's a lot bigger organization than any of the states uh you're gonna get you're gonna usually have to fax them they love faxing and so if you fax them it's going to take weeks so you got to figure out exactly what you're going to fax them maybe it's a request for information for your uh ein number that you lost you know maybe just go look at old tax records if you can if you can think of where those are otherwise you have to do a request for information it's a fax it's going to take six to eight weeks and you're just gonna have to wait and so that's a big pain so anyway hopefully that was useful if you found it useful like subscribe uh comment share get an llc from better legal tell a friend to get an llc from better legal you can actually go to betterlegal.com forward slash referrals and become an affiliate referral even if you're not a customer of ours and you will be able to give a hundred dollar discount to any of your friends or family and once they buy we will then send you 100 check in the mail how can we afford to do that well it's actually less expensive to do that it's more profitable for us to do that and share the wealth with your friend and you than it is to get a customer from google ads we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on google ads and um other billion dollar tech companies uh to earn business and so we'd rather you spread the wealth and i'll share it with you so uh you can do that and that's it until next time
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- Wilson Muhlestein, Staff Member
hello everyone and welcome to another episode of coffee with carl i am of course your host carl zellner i'm one of the attorneys here with anderson business advisors and today we're going to be talking about signing documents so grab your coffee and let's go all right so signing your documents this may sort of seem like a silly issue to cover and people are usually sort of embarrassed to raise their hand and ask this question uh when we're holding one of our events but it does come up and it normally comes up when you didn't think of it when you were actually putting your entities to when you're putting your entities together or even when you executed your documents because we say just sign here and we print up those title blocks for you but it does come up right so when we're signing documents there's a few things we want to look at number one if you're having trouble figuring out how to sign your documents or say if you have an entity structure where there's entities owning other entities member managed and it's getting a little complex or there's land trust things like that involved please please please if you're a client just give us a shout we're happy to point you in the right direction it is no big deal but it can be a little weird to work with in the beginning but just like anything else once you've figured it out or once you've done it a couple times it becomes like second nature so first tip or first trick would be if you're in a pinch and need to know how to sign your documents you can always go to the end of your operating agreement for your llc or the end of your bylaws for your corporation and normally there is a signature block on there that will designate how you should sign and in what capacity now when i'm signing on behalf of say an llc normally i'm signing it just as a primer as well normally i'm signing in my capacity as manager and when i'm signing on behalf of a corporation i'm normally signing in my capacity as officer when i'm dealing with outside parties meaning when i sign as an as an officer or a manager i'm designating that i have the ability and right to bind the business commit to something and bind the business but i'm not necessarily tipping my hand as to ownership of that business because there's lots of different ways entities can be set up but normally managers and a manager managed llc could be an employee and the same thing with officers officers are not assumed to be or we all think they're supposed to be shareholders so those that's why we normally sign in that capacity when we're dealing with the outside world now that's sort of the simplest equation on these things when we start stacking these entities so say if i have a rental property and i'm using a wyoming holding llc that's manager managed and i'm usually the manager and then i have a texas llc that would be member managed so say texas llc wyoming holding company i'm the manager up here but down here at this texas llc level the only thing that's showing wyoming so how do i sign there well i've got to get my name onto the document somehow right i mean we're all looking at this and we can figure this out right my name needs to be on the document great so where does my name show up that i can show capacity to sign for down here at this texas llc at the texas llc level the member is wyoming so i have the right i already know to sign on behalf of the wyoming llc as its manager now what i've got to do is connect those two things so when i sign on for the texas llc i sign and i have to note that i'm the manager of the wyoming llc which is by extension the manager of the texas llc because the texas llc is set up as member managed so it's sort of cumbersome it can create a kind of a lengthy title block but really on a day to day you're not really signing that many documents especially if we're talking about a passive investment structure it's more just getting it squared away in the beginning and then from then on it tends to run itself if you are having trouble with that though and you are a client please give us a call or if you're interested in learning more about some of those structures and how we set them up and how we sign and all these good things we do hold lots of classes and are always happy to have a free initial consultation with you so this covers the very basics of signing our documents like i said if you need help let us know always happy to reach out and help or get those signature blocks in place uh also free more frequently or sort of from a new realm we are considering and have started to include officer positions within llcs so it's sort of a bridging of a gap there if for some reason you have one of those structured llc's that it's pretty difficult to get the signature on or cannot get just wrap your head around that signature block you do have the ability to create officer positions in there so that you can actually sign on behalf of the business in your capacity one takeaway i want to make sure everybody gets we want to make sure that we're signing in our capacity within that entity not as individuals we do not want that confusion out there because that can bring liability to you and your business with the argument being that there was confusion on who the outside party was dealing with so it's been a pleasure as always meeting with you all please take advantage of all of our free content please as well if you're not a client you have more questions call in free consultation no pressure you're more than welcome to ask all the questions you want we'll answer them to the best of our ability and if you want to do business together we're always happy to add some more people to the family until next time it's been a pleasure coffee with carl catch you on the next episode you
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- Wilson Muhlestein
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