A lot of Florida LLCs start at home. A laptop on the dining table in Kendall, a ring light in the spare room in Fort Lauderdale, a pile of invoices next to the kids' homework. So when the form asks for your company's address, you type your own. It's the only one you've got.
That form lives on Sunbiz, the Florida state website where every LLC (limited liability company, the most common way to set up a small business in the US) is registered, and where anyone can look one up for free.
So can you use your home address for your LLC in Florida? Yes. It's legal, it's common, and the state won't reject it. The better question is what comes with it. That part deserves five minutes before you hit submit, or before your next annual report if you already did.
This is general information, not legal or tax advice. If your situation has a twist, a Florida attorney is worth the call.
The short answer
Florida asks every LLC for a principal office and a mailing address (s. 605.0201). The principal office is the street address where the business is actually run from. If you run yours from home, your home is, honestly, your principal office. Nothing wrong with that.
What catches people off guard is everything around it. Your home address goes on a public record, it comes back on that record every year, and it ends up on letters, invoices and listings you'll have to chase down if you ever move.
What becomes public
All of it. A free search on Sunbiz shows your principal office, your mailing address, your registered agent and your managers, plus images of the documents you filed. Florida even treats the email address you give the state as a public record (Division of Corporations).
Then there's the annual report, the short filing every Florida LLC makes on Sunbiz between January 1 and May 1. It lists at least one person who manages the company, with a name and an address (s. 605.0212). If that address is your home, it goes back on the record every single year. Our Florida LLC annual report guide walks through each field.
And it doesn't stay on Sunbiz. Plenty of websites copy those records, so the address you typed in five minutes can follow your company around for years. Changing it later updates your record, but the images of older filings stay viewable.
The trade-offs nobody mentions at the kitchen table
The mail
Once your company is on a public record, the letters start. A few matter. Plenty don't: loan offers, insurance quotes, directory listings. Around annual report season come official-looking letters offering to file the report for a fee. The Florida Department of State warns these can be misleading and says you don't need anyone's help to file (Department of State, 2026).
At home, all of that lands in the same box as your electric bill. The important stuff too, like letters from the IRS (the US tax agency, which still writes to companies on paper). If you travel a lot, someone has to be checking.
Privacy
A home address on a business record tells anyone who searches where you live. For a lot of owners that's no big deal. For a personal trainer, a therapist, a creator with a following or anyone who's ever had an unhappy client, it can feel very different. There's no wrong answer here. But it's a lot easier to decide before the record exists than after.
Your lease or your HOA
Florida law limits how far cities and counties can restrict businesses run from home (s. 559.955). That same law says it doesn't override condominium declarations, cooperative documents or homeowners' association covenants. An HOA, or homeowners' association, is the group that runs a community and enforces its rules. And a lease is a private contract with its own terms.
Rules vary a lot. Some are aimed at signs, traffic and clients coming and going, and a laptop never bothers anyone. Others are written broadly. Read yours before you put your unit number on a public business record, because that record is the first place anyone would look.
Moving later
People in South Florida move. A bigger apartment, a cheaper one, a new city. If your LLC's address is your home, a move means updating Sunbiz, the IRS (on Form 8822-B), your bank, your website, your invoices and every client who has you on file. And your old address still shows up in the filings you already made. A business address stays put when you don't.
The fair side of using home
Home has real advantages, and we'd rather say so. It's free. It's clearly a street address, so the principal office line is simple. And banks and payment companies often want your real operating address. Mercury, an online business bank, accepts a verifiable residential address but doesn't accept virtual or mailbox addresses as the company address (Mercury's address requirements). Each bank and platform sets its own rules, so ask them first.
Can you use a P.O. box for an LLC in Florida?
Partly. A P.O. box, the box you rent at the post office, can't be your principal office, because Sunbiz says that line must be a street address. It can be your mailing address (Sunbiz filing instructions). A Florida business address on a real street does the same job on the mailing line, and it reads like a business on your website and invoices.
The middle path most home-based owners take
You don't have to pick all home or no home. Here's how the lines usually split for someone who runs the business from their living room:
- Principal office: where you actually run the business. If that's home, home is the truthful answer. Whether a virtual office address can go here is a gray area, and we explain why in our guide on using a virtual office as your LLC's address.
- Mailing address: a business address. This is where the state and most official mail go.
- Manager address on the annual report: a business address. Sunbiz's own help pages even accept a P.O. box there.
- Registered agent: the person or company that accepts lawsuits and legal notices for your LLC. If you name yourself, your home goes on this line, and Florida wants someone there at least from 10 a.m. to noon on business days (s. 48.091). A registered agent service can take it instead. Prima doesn't offer that service.
- Email: a business email, not your personal one.
That still leaves your home on the principal office line if that's where you work. We won't pretend otherwise. But the mailing, manager and email lines are often where most of the exposure is, and those are fully up to you. The full walk-through is in how to keep your home address off Sunbiz.
Where a business address fits
Prima gives your LLC a Florida business address in Miami: "2125 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 300 #" plus your mailbox number, Miami, FL 33137. Our team receives your mail in the building and you see a photo of every envelope in the app. Before anyone can receive mail for you, USPS (the US Postal Service) requires a short form called PS Form 1583, and you sign it online with a notary on a quick video call, included in every plan. Today the Address plan is $39 a month (see current prices).
If that sounds useful, read a business address for your Florida LLC. Working from home in Miami and wondering what goes on your website, invoices and Google? We sort that out in which address goes where for a home-based business. And if you're happy keeping your home address, that's a perfectly good choice too. Now you know what comes with it.