All Forum Posts by: Greg Verge

Lived most of my life in Seattle area and just wanted to clarify that most people are not very concerned about Mt Rainer erupting. The Seattle/Bellevue area is far enough away to the North that an eruption would not directly cause much if any damage. Biggest risk is to people living around base of mountain and surrounding rivers as the debris flow would cause massive destruction so staying North of Tacoma avoids the affected rivers. As far as natural disasters go we are much more concerned about the off shore Juan de Fuca tectonic plate which has a proven history of causing large earthquakes and tsunamis that affect the whole Western part of the state. Can't provide any insight into Seattle rental laws but but sure seems the City Council is hell bent on messing everything up for everyone with mandatory acceptance of first received (must be timestamped) application that meets minimum criteria.

I looked at legal zoom but then just did it directly myself. Legal zoom and other similar websites just ask you the same info as the form and then fill out the state form for you. Might as well directly fill it out yourself. $200 online submission at https://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/limitedliabilitycompaniesllconlineandpaperregistrations.aspx. Super easy and quick to do yourself in WA. You need to set up a state web account to service your LLC annual reports anyway and that is 1/2 the effort. As a side note the annual submission to the state for the LLC is trivial to do and basically just confirms your info has not changed since last year. You will also need to get a tax ID for your LLC and that is equally easy to do directly from the IRS at https://irs-tax-gov.com/application/?form=llc. Just make sure to lock down your LLC legal name with the state first and ensure it is identical across all forms.