Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Florida
CC&R and Home Based Businesses
I live in a subdivision with the usual CC&R's. In the section about commercial uses, it states (No, trade, business, profession, or other type of commercial activity shall be carried on upon any lot, except as hereinafter provided for Declarant and except that real estate brokers) etc.
My question is I am planning on starting and LLC in Florida and have to use an address for said business. The type of work I will be doing is computer programming for corporations. I will never have a person coming to my home office for business purposes. So I really don't know how I would be creating a nusiance. Would I be in violation of my CC&R's?
If so is it legal to just use a UPS Store PO BOX for my physical business address?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: CC&R and Home Based Businesses
You may be able to get a variance because no one will be coming to your home. You can't use a PO Box for an LLC address but you could use any other that you can get your mail from, a parent, sibling, friend. Some companies will let you use their address. Feel free to contact me for more information, my firm focuses on Internet and entertainment law.
Re: CC&R and Home Based Businesses
Based on the the snippet of the CC&R that you have quoted in your question, it is difficult to say if you would be in violation of your CC&R. Most likely not if you just run a home office and don't have clients and such coming over. You can have your business incorporated out of a P.O. Box, but you will need an actual individual to serve as a registered agent for the corporation, and that will require a street address. You could list your home address and serve as the registered agent yourself, or pay someone, or some company to serve as your registered agent for your corporation.
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