Your registered agent should be a lawyer.
The registered agent and corporate filings arm of H New Media Law International. Florida entities only, by choice, handled start to finish in English or Spanish.
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Coral Gables, FL 33134
Why HNM Agents
A registered agent is a legal position, not a mailbox.
Florida requires every company to name a person or entity that will accept lawsuits on its behalf at a street address in the state. Whoever holds that job is the first to know your company has been sued. Most national providers treat that moment as a scanning task.
A lawyer opens the envelope
Every summons, garnishment, subpoena and agency notice is reviewed by a Florida attorney before it goes out to you, with the response deadline identified. Nothing is outsourced to a call center.
Built for owners outside the United States
Most of our clients are based in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico and Europe. We know apostilles, foreign qualification, signatories in another time zone, and how to explain a Florida filing requirement in Spanish.
Your home address stays off the record
Sunbiz publishes the registered office address to anyone who searches your company. Use ours. Process servers, junk mail and anyone running a search on your name land here instead.
One price, and it stays there
Ninety-nine dollars a year. No introductory rate that doubles in year two, no charge to be named on your articles, no fee to forward a document that arrives.
Services
Everything a Florida entity needs to stay in good standing.
Pricing
Three ways to hold the agent seat.
Prices are per year and do not change at renewal. Florida filing fees are separate and are shown at cost everywhere on this site.
Three ways to start in Florida.
One-time packages. Each includes the first year of registered agent service, which then renews at $99 a year. Florida filing fees are separate and are shown at cost.
Each package is the sum of the prices in the table below, with nothing added. Choosing one fills in the quote builder, where you can change anything before you pay.
Formation and filings
Every package below includes the first year of registered agent service at no charge. State filing fees are collected at cost and paid directly to the state.
| Service | HNM Agents fee | Florida state fee |
|---|
What renewal actually costs
The second year is where the national services make their money.
Published renewal price for one state of registered agent service, as advertised in September 2026. Introductory first-year discounts are excluded because they are not what you pay for long.
Competitor figures are the renewal rates those companies publish for a single state and are current as of September 2026. They are stated for comparison only and may change at any time. Verify current pricing with each provider.
Where we serve
One state, covered properly.
We hold the agent seat in Florida only. We would rather know one state completely than sell fifty through a subcontractor.
Every Florida limited liability company and corporation must designate and continuously maintain a registered agent and a registered office in the state. The agent must have a Florida street address identical to the registered office. A post office box will not satisfy the statute.
An LLC that falls out of compliance cannot maintain an action in a Florida court until it cures the defect and pays what it owes the state.
| Florida filing | State fee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| LLC articles of organization | $125.00 | $100 filing + $25 agent designation |
| Corporation articles of incorporation | $70.00 | $35 filing + $35 agent designation |
| LLC annual report | $138.75 | $538.75 after May 1 |
| Corporation annual report | $150.00 | $550.00 after May 1 |
| Change of registered agent (LLC) | $25.00 | Included when you move to us |
| Certificate of status | $5.00 | LLC; $8.75 for a corporation |
| Reinstatement (LLC) | $100.00 | Plus every missed annual report |
| Reinstatement (corporation) | $600.00 | Plus every missed annual report |
How it works
Four steps, and the first one takes about five minutes.
Choose your service
Pick a state and a plan below. Pay by card through Stripe. You get a receipt and an intake link immediately.
Send us the entity details
Exact legal name, state, document number if it already exists, and where you want documents forwarded. The form is in English and Spanish.
We file the change
We are named as your agent on the public record and send you the stamped confirmation. Existing entities pay no separate agent-change fee.
We watch the calendar
Annual report and registration reminders start ninety days out, and anything served on you is scanned, reviewed and forwarded the same day.
Build your service
Price it out before you talk to anyone.
Please read this
What HNM Agents is, and what it is not.
Non-legal services
Registered agent service, entity formation, annual report and annual registration filing, document retrieval and mail handling are business services. They are not legal services, and buying them does not make you a client of any law firm and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Nothing on this site is legal advice, and nothing you send through this site is protected by the attorney-client privilege unless and until a written engagement is signed.
Legal services
Trademark clearance and opinions, trademark applications and portfolio work, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, contract drafting and any advice about your rights or obligations are legal services. They are provided by H New Media Law International, a Florida law firm, under a separate written engagement letter and a separate fee.
HNM Agents is affiliated with that firm and is owned by a Florida lawyer. We tell you this so there is no confusion about which hat we are wearing on any given matter.
Questions
Asked before every engagement.
Can I be my own registered agent?
In Florida, yes, if you are an individual with a street address in the state and you are there during business hours. Two problems follow. Your address becomes a public record that anyone can search, and a process server will hand a lawsuit to whoever answers the door, including an employee or a family member, at whatever moment that happens.
I live outside the United States. Can I still own a Florida company?
Yes. Florida does not require an owner to be a US citizen or resident. What it does require is a registered agent with an address inside the state, which is the specific gap we fill. Tax and banking are separate questions and we will tell you plainly when one of them needs a professional we are not.
What do you need from me to get started?
Very little. For a new company: the name you want and a second choice, the name and address of each owner or manager, an address for the company, which can be outside the United States, and an email and a phone number. For a company that already exists: its exact legal name and its Florida document number. A company formed abroad that is registering in Florida also needs a certificate of existence from its home registry. You do not need a Social Security number, a US address of your own or a trip to Florida.
A bank will ask for more when you open the account, usually a passport for each owner. That is between you and the bank.
Do I still have to file a beneficial ownership report?
If your company was formed in the United States, no. A FinCEN final rule effective August 14, 2026 permanently exempted domestic companies and all US persons from beneficial ownership reporting. Companies formed under foreign law that register to do business here still report, and only as to their non-US beneficial owners. If you are a Dominican or Nicaraguan company qualifying to do business in Florida, this still applies to you.
What happens the moment my company is sued?
The process server comes here. We accept service, scan the papers the same day, identify the response deadline, and send you the file with that deadline stated in the message. In Florida a defendant generally has twenty days from service to respond. That clock starts whether or not anyone read the envelope.
How do I move from my current agent?
You do not need to wait for a renewal date or ask permission. We prepare the change of registered agent filing, you sign it, and we submit it. The Florida state fee is $25, and we absorb it for new annual clients.
Is this a mail forwarding or virtual office service?
No. We accept service of process and official correspondence from the state and from federal and state agencies. We are not a commercial mail receiving agency and we do not accept packages, bank statements or general business mail. Keeping the two separate is what keeps the agent address clean.
Will the same person handle my file every time?
Yes. This is a small firm by design. You will not be routed through a ticket queue, and the person who answers in Spanish is the same person who prepared your filing.
Can you set up a Florida series LLC?
Yes. Since July 1, 2026, an active Florida LLC can create protected series by filing a designation with the state. We file each designation for $99 plus the $25 state fee, and as your registered agent we serve the LLC and every series at no extra charge. The protection depends on keeping each series' records and assets separate, so read our guide before you decide.
Can you also handle my trademark?
Yes, through our sister site HNM Brands, under a separate engagement with the law firm, because that is legal work. A search with a written attorney opinion is $569 and a US application is $759 plus USPTO fees, both flat. Trademark searching, US and international applications, and portfolio maintenance have been part of this practice for twenty-five years.
Guides
Plain answers, in English and Spanish.
Short guides to the questions owners ask us most, written by the people who do the filings.
What a Florida LLC costs
The first year, every year after, and the price of missing May 1.
Read the guide Owners abroadAn EIN without an SSN or ITIN
How the IRS issues a tax number to a company whose owner has no US tax number.
Read the guide Next stepsAfter your company is formed
EIN, operating agreement, bank account and the first annual report, in order.
Read the guide New in FloridaProtected series LLCs
One Florida LLC, several compartments. What it protects and what it does not.
Read the guideNinety-nine dollars, and someone who reads the mail.
Florida. Flat at renewal. English and Spanish.