Limited Liability Companies: Small Business Start-Up Kit (Small Business Library) (Paperback)

by Daniel Sitarz (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
Sitarz, an attorney and self-help legal writer, offers here a series of books on business, divorce, and estate and trusts law. Each book takes one type of law--such as divorce--and summarizes its relevant statutory laws for each state. The books are clearly written, but they have several failings. First, they don't cite significant case law (and, as any lawyer knows, statutes are not the only source of law). Second, they don't provide Internet references (even to official state web sites). Third, there are no sample forms anywhere in the books. And while these texts are intended "for use by legal professionals, paralegals, business-persons," it is hard to imagine any of these groups finding them more than marginally useful. In text format and online (via Lexis-Nexis), the Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest is a superior summary of the statutory law, prepared by prominent law firms in each state. For nonprofessionals, there is a wealth of information online (at www.findlaw.com, for example, or at official bar association and state sites). Not recommended.
-Harry Charles, Attorney-at-Law, St. Louis
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
All of the forms and instructions needed to set up a small business limited liabilty company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 287 pages
• Publisher: Nova Publishing Company; Bk&CD Rom edition (February 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935755764
• ISBN-13: 978-0935755763
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,342,268 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for those wanting to start a LLC by themselves!, June 27, 2002

By	E "Msuaholic" (Metro Detroit, MI United States) - See all my reviews

I find this book to be one of the best on the subject of LLC's. I myself invest in real estate and run everything through my LLC's. This book has pretty much all you need for running your company, every single form is incredibly useful. I personally do not use the Residential/Commerical lease forms because I use my own and each state and cities within the state have different rental regulations and laws. I strongly disagree with Mr. Bingham's review about the CD-Rom because in the book on pages 9-12 contain a list of the forms found on the CD-Rom and which form lable goes with which topic. An example of this is:

"Chapter 2: Business Start-Up Checklist"
Form 1: Business Start-Up Checklist (text form)"

The forms on the CD-Rom are in text and pdf format. I wonder if Mr. Bingham even opened the book because this is discussed at the beginning of the book with the "List of Forms-on-CD" section and throughout the rest of the book. I think this is a must have for those either considering forming a LLC for your business or running an existing one. This book is saving me a lot of time and effort and will do the same for you!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Book Review, January 22, 2002

By	William H. Bingham (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This book is a fairly general overview of running a company. It doesn't really delve into anything too difficult and a lot of its bulk (number of pages) is made up by repeating the same material (as forms) with minor variations. Clarity could be greatly improved if a single iteration of the form was given, and the areas that were subject to variations were so indicated. The way it's done you have to compare 4-8 variations to see what changes between them. Another serious failing is the lack of an index for the forms on the CD. They are simply labeled Doc1, Doc2, etc. You have to open each one to find out what they are. The book does not refer to them by the names on the CD, and there is no index in either the book or on the CD. This is a mediocre book, not bad, not great.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Chock full of stuff but painful to read and hard to use., February 10, 2005

By	Book reader (California) - See all my reviews

This book has lots of financial worksheets and checklists, but they're not written in a helpful manner or format. Plus, you end up entering much of the same info into many checklists over and over again. Worse, the text is really painful to read. It's not broken down into bite-size pieces or written in plain-English. And I have to agree with Mr. Bingham that it is hard to use the CD-ROM because you have to click into each folder to see what's there and then click into BOTH the PDF forms and text forms folders, because sometimes the forms in the two folders are just duplicates of each other while other times a form only exists in one folder or the other. In short, the book is heavy on forms and worksheets whose usefulness is questionable, and light on text.