LLC name taken

[Nick Janovich]

I have an LLC registered in the state of WV, Fore Investments LLC. I have a property under contract in Ohio. So I need to register my West Virginia LLC as a foreign business in Ohio. The problem is that the name is already taken. The Ohio Secretary of State's office recommended that my company do business in Ohio as Fore Investments OH LLC. I would still be registering the WV LLC as a foreign LLC in OH that simply does business under a different name. It would not be a different company (same EIN.)

The part I'm confused on.... does that mean loans, checking accounts, ads, signage utilities, etc need to be in the Fore Investments OH LLC name? Or can I still use Fore Investments LLC? Multiple checking accounts seems like a pain.

Surely I'm not the first person to run into this.