Picture a carpet cleaning van parked on the street, for example.
It's not that complicated.
You want the benefits of a business while not having to worry about angry customers annoying you at your house.
I don't blame you.
We all want to have cake and eat it, too.
What's the alternative here? Pay a couple hundred a year for a forwarding address that is sufficiently real enough for Stripe to accept?
Asking out of personal interest. I'm working on the solopreneur route and looking at what's available for myself. Would prefer to keep it away from my personal address.
Yet another baseless assumption.
You want the benefits of a business while not having to worry about angry customers annoying you at your house
Or one may wish to continue making money to feed themselves even though they cannot afford housing. Have you ever had to apply for apartments on self employment income?
For a solo entrepreneurship business in the U.S., your home is your place of business if you do not have another fixed place of business.
My concern is that if I had an online business that I worked on at home, I still wouldn’t want my home address to be given out by my payment processor.
So I'm not sure about zoning in most places--especially today--but it wouldn't surprise me if there were some restrictions on business-related commercial traffic.
I don't understand this. Whatever requirements (if any) that apply to your home business are going to be set by the city/county (and those can change over the years). Your home purchase agreement doesn't have any jurisdiction over that.
