Tag: texas
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How to find out who owns an LLC in Texas
When you pull a Texas LLC record for underwriting, you see a registered agent and a formation date. That's not who owns the company. Texas publishes member and manager names on public filings, but only if you know…
Texas Secretary of State business search — the free company lookup guide
The Texas Secretary of State maintains a free public database of every LLC, corporation, partnership, and limited partnership registered in the state. You can pull entity status, formation date, registered agent, and…
Verifying a Texas trucking company: what the state shows and what it doesn't
Texas has more motor carriers than any other state, and a business registry that hides the thing underwriters need most. Here is what you can pull, what you can't, and how to close the gap.
Verifying an LLC across two states — Delaware-formed, Texas-operating
A Delaware LLC operating in Texas creates a dual-verification problem: you have to check two separate Secretary of State registries, understand which one controls the entity's legal standing, and catch the gaps where…
Underwriting a Texas trucking carrier in 90 seconds
Texas lets you validate a trucking carrier's franchise-tax standing and pull officer names in a single API call. No portal crawling. No separate lookups. If you're underwriting a small fleet operator, that one call +…
Why the Texas Comptroller PIR is the best free owner-graph signal in the country
Texas requires a Public Information Report on every franchise-tax filing — making the Comptroller, not the SOS, the strongest free source of officer data nationally.