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LLC SchoolhousePlain LLC lessons, one state at a time.

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How lessons and picks are made

LLC Schoolhouse puts each service on a report card: how much a student pays across three years, and how much of the lesson's homework the price does for them. Below: where the lesson facts come from, how a lesson is built and the five criteria behind every pick.

Taught by the LLC Schoolhouse editors

Sources

State facts in these lessons are drawn from official publications and dated by month.

Inside a lesson

Every lesson follows one plan: answer, key facts, picks, numbered steps, costs, questions, references. The three-year state cost is the filing fee plus the recurring reports due in years two and three plus any yearly minimum tax. Costs with no fixed amount, such as newspaper publication, are explained but not added.

How the order is set

  1. Tuition over three years (32%). Everything the service bills for years one, two and three, read off the first-year and renewal prices on its own site. The state collects the same fee whoever files, so each lesson prints that fee but the report card does not count it.
  2. Homework the price handles (33%). The number of homework tasks the price completes on your behalf: filing the formation or the registration, serving as registered agent, sending in the repeating state report and applying for the EIN.
  3. Year-two price (12%). What you pay from year two onward, and whether it stays equal to year one.
  4. Fit with the state's lesson plan (13%). How closely the plan follows the state's own routine: when its report is due and what lateness costs, what its agent address rule demands and whether a second state could be in your future.
  5. Pricing a beginner can read (10%). Whether a newcomer can read the full price before paying, with the state fee itemized apart and billed at the amount the state sets.

When two report cards come out within a few points, the lesson names the subject that decided it and says what the runner-up did better.

Marks are LLC Schoolhouse's own editorial grading from these criteria, not customer ratings.

The services we consider

A list includes Mainstay Filing and the agent services of that state, as long as they publish a price.

What we do not do

The grades are editorial, not customer ratings, and the lessons are general education, not legal advice.