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well hey there this is Seth from the re tipster blog and in this short video today I want to show you a really quick and easy way that you can create a operating agreement for an LLC so if you're running your own business and if you have your own LLC chances are at some point you're gonna have to create this document a lot of times banks or lenders will have to see this kind of paperwork in order to verify that you actually have control over your LLC or if your LLC is owned by multiple people the operating agreement kind of helps spell out who owns it who has the control who makes the profit when the profits get distributed really a lot of potential thing can be baked in into this document but for a lot of reasons it's an important thing to have and it's actually a good idea to create this at the time that you register your LLC so that from day one this document exists and just spells out all the details about who has the control and the company so if you've got a company that just has one individual maybe it's just you and that's it this is gonna be a pretty simple process but if you've got a LLC that has maybe you and your spouse or maybe you and another business partner or maybe you and 10 other people then this document gets even more important to put together and to get right and before we dive into this I'll just say I'm not an attorney so this is definitely something where I mean if you have any confusion about it you should definitely be talking with an attorney just to make sure they can inform you of all the specifics and issues to watch out for because they can definitely be there but if you've got a fairly simple situation and you're confident that you know how to do this yourself I'm gonna show you how to do it with a service here called a rocket lawyer and I've been using a rocket lawyer for several months now for a lot of different things in my business and I've just found it to be by far the easiest way to create these kinds of forms on your own if that's what you want to do now this site is definitely not a substitute for legal advice so just keep that in mind you are kind of taking some risk into your own hands if you're doing this yourself but in a lot of situations like for example I have an LLC where I am the sole owner of that all see and there's just nobody else involved that's a very cut and dry straightforward of situation so I would totally be comfortable using this for somebody like myself self but if this is something that you want to try to put together it's very quick it's not hard at all let me just show you how this works and if you want to create one yourself there's a link beneath this video and you can check that out and it'll take you right to this exact same page that you're seeing here on the screen when you first get to the Rocket Lawyer website you're gonna see a page that looks something like this and in this situation I'm just gonna put together an operating agreement for a fictitious company I'm gonna put two people in this LLC just so you can get an idea for how the process can go when you have more than just one person involved and again this is something that is different in every scenario so I'm not necessarily saying you need to be filling out these exact same pieces of information that I am this is just one possibility if there are two individuals involved so let's say that this company is in I want to know in Nebraska I'll just pick one at random and then the first question is what is the name of the limited liability company well let's just call it ABC company and then we'll hit continue and then where is the LLC being formed go ahead and say Nebraska continue again what date will the LLC operating agreement take effect well let's just say in this case January 1 2017 and I'm really just picking that because it's the first day of the year I would say generally you would pick whatever the date is that you're registering for your LLC or whatever today's date is it's it's really kind of up to you just whatever rules you want to be in place from that day forward that's the date you would pick and we'll hit continue and then enter the name of one of the members we'll say the first one is John Smith continue and in this situation we're gonna say that there are two individuals John Smith and Jane Smith and at the time of forming this company that are both going to be injecting an equal amount of cash so that they both own 50 percent of the entity so we'll say that John is putting in cash and he's gonna be putting in a thousand bucks and then he's also gonna own 50 percent and then we're gonna add another member here this one's gonna be Jane Smith and these people could be husband and wife or they could just be you know individuals that are not married I'll say cash for her as well and thousand bucks continued percentage owner so 50% okay so now we've got our two individuals in there and what is the primary address for the LLC just make one up here and then what continue and what does the name and address of the LLC's registered agent so just a quick explanation on what this means the registered agent does not necessarily mean that this person has any control over the LLC it just means that this is the person who's sent in the original registration for the LLC in that state so in a lot of states when you go to their statewide business entity search on the state government website you can search for the business name now we usually tell you the name of the registered agent which is the person who filed for the paperwork in the first place so this does not necessarily need to be John Smith or Jane Smith and in a lot of situations say if you wanted to protect your privacy and not display either your personal name or your business address when people go ahead and search for your business name like this you can actually do that through Rocket Lawyer they have a registered agent service where you can pay them to act as your registered agents so if somebody ever searches for your company it's not gonna show your name and address its gonna show their name and address so it's kind of a nice little privacy protection thing if that's something you want to do I'll have a link to that service beneath this video as well so be sure to check that out if that's something you're interested in for any reason but if you're not let's just say in this case John Smith is fine with having his own name on there and in his own address he would just go ahead and put this in here like this and then his business address as well whatever that is might continue and then the purpose this is basically where you just outline whatever the point of the company is whatever they do whatever service or product they provide I guess for example I run a real estate investing business where I buy and sell land so in my case I could say real estate investing company specializing in vacant land or something like that and I literally just made that up on the spot it's just kind of your chance to explain whatever it is the purpose of your business is once that's in there we'll hit continue and for how long will that LLC operate in my cas
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- Ora Winkleblack, Staff Member
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