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Posted By: Sandi Bowman In Response To: Re: NonBusiness... Checking up on a "nonprofit" and a "corporation"... (Steve)
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, at 2:55 p.m.
> MaaMaw,
> Go to the Secretary of State's website in whichever state you reside. I
> believe you're in California? If so, the corporate look-up website is
> here:
> http://kepler.ss.ca.gov/list.html
> You can search for all registered corporations, even non-profits. It is
> possible she is running the thrift store as a "D/B/A"
> ("doing business as"), and that the corporate name is different
> than the store name.
> You can ask her what her corporate name is if you can't find it. If she is
> legit, there would be no reason to hide it from you. It's public record.
> I doubt she's running an outright sham. Believe it or not, these days it
> is actually difficult to get away with running a retail business without
> the existence of a bonafide corporation, LLC or other business entity. But
> who knows?
> By way of history, I used to be a corporate paralegal, so this is kind of
> my bread and butter. Hope this helps.
> Steve
Be danged if I wouldn't be tempted to open a thrift store as close as I could to her and draw all her traffic and donations away by being the sweetest, most open and kind, loving-hearted person around. I'd offer freebies, price things VERY reasonably, even have a list of folks who do light hauling for people to contact on their own to get things moved if needed.
I've found that the most paranoid among us are also the least trustworthy. Guess they figure everyone else is doing what they'd do if given the chance? Not always true, of course, but often enough.
BTW you could go to the legal notices newspaper morgues and check the DBA's around the time she began and get a lot of info there.
Sandi Bowman
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