SA membership and privacy
[QUOTE=GoldMiner;5965114]How do you guys pay for SA membership? When I used my credit card masking those charge as a home improvement charges using [URL]privacy.com[/URL], it auto suspended my account. Is there any way to get around this? I am also using VPN.[/QUOTE]This is how I do it.
1. I create an ambiguous LLC through a registered argent. I currently use a cover of "marketing research company" or my last one was an "investment" company which the name was something like "St. Louis Capital Investments, LLC". You get the picture.
2. Open up business bank account and Credit Card under the new LLC name. (fund it, $10,000 is a good starter amount in my opinion) (Hint: You can issue a business CC in anyone's name).
3. Buy a domain name that matches the company name that comes with email and if you want website hosting. (buy the privacy part, and email is a must) (Hint: I always build out a website and create a logo, it cost $100 to $150 on fiverr. The more real you make it, the less questions you will get.).
4. Use above CC and domain email to sign up for the SA sites.
5. Buy a burner phone (I like the iPhone, and I make it the exact same model with the same cover as my daily phone, so if the wife sees me with it she doesn't ask questions or think twice.).
6. All the above is a tax write off for the next three to five years as a "start-up".
I don't hide anything from the wife; it is all in plain sight. As far as she is concerned it is just another one of my start-up business. The only person who knows is my lawyer. Using the burner phone does take some discipline and I normally keep it at the office at night and over the weekends. The only people who know who you are by doing it this way, is the register agent, the bank, and the IRS. It would take a court order to pull your name. As far as address used? You will use the register agent's. For $100 a year they scan all paper mail and email it to your new domain.
And the steps are not necessarily in the correct order; as I already had a domain.
Added bonus! Sometimes the "start-up" has to go on business trips. Wink wink.