Can You Be Your Own Registered Agent in Minnesota? The State Wants a Registered Office

The Minnesota rule

Who can serve: If one is named: a Minnesota resident, or a corporation or LLC formed in Minnesota or authorized there, with a business office at the registered office.

The address: Every Minnesota LLC keeps a registered office at an actual office location in Minnesota; a P.O. box by itself is not accepted.

The LLC itself cannot be its own agent in Minnesota; an individual or another business serves. Changing agents in Minnesota costs $55. Source: Minn. Stat. § 5.36, checked October 20, 2026.

The trade-offs

• Your Minnesota address goes on the public filing.
• Papers are handed to you at that address, so you need to be there when the state’s rule says.
• If you move, you file a change of agent ($55 in Minnesota).

If you would rather not

Mainstay Filing is $149 a year for registered agent service in Minnesota, the same at renewal. Service of process is scanned and uploaded the same business day at no fee.