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by onlyrealcuzzo 849 days ago
If you're a sole practitioner (what this article is about) - by definition - your business is you. And you are most often in your home.

It's not that complicated.

You want the benefits of a business while not having to worry about angry customers annoying you at your house.

I don't blame you.

We all want to have cake and eat it, too.

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> You want the benefits of a business while not having to worry about angry customers annoying you at your house.

What's the alternative here? Pay a couple hundred a year for a forwarding address that is sufficiently real enough for Stripe to accept?

Asking out of personal interest. I'm working on the solopreneur route and looking at what's available for myself. Would prefer to keep it away from my personal address.

Yes, this is the answer. Pay for a virtual address/agent, it's just part of the cost of doing business.
This isn't about angry customers knowing where you live. This is about angry government since it's for regulatory purposes.
you are most often in your home

Yet another baseless assumption.

You want the benefits of a business while not having to worry about angry customers annoying you at your house

Or one may wish to continue making money to feed themselves even though they cannot afford housing. Have you ever had to apply for apartments on self employment income?