Terms.
Terms, version 3. Last changed October 2026.
The short version of what you buy and what we promise. The Standard sits above everything here.
What we do
We file documents you ask us to file, act as registered agent where you buy it (outside New Jersey, a licensed registered agent in that state is the agent of record, and we handle everything it receives), receive and scan mail at 187 Breakneck Road, and answer your phone line if you buy live answering.
What we are not
Garden State Agency LLC is not a law firm and does not give legal or tax advice. We can tell you what a document is and when it is due. What to do about it is your decision, or your lawyer’s.
Prices and renewals
You pay the price printed beside each line. Recurring lines renew at the price printed beside them. If a price ever changes, you hear it from us before it does (Article IV). State fees pass through at cost, shown before you pay and on every receipt (Article V). A monthly line may be paid for 12 months at checkout at 12 times its monthly price; allowances stay monthly. The multi-state discount never applies to a bundle’s first-year price.
Allowances
Live answering includes 20 calls a month, then $3 a call; calls under 30 seconds are free and a call over 10 minutes counts as two. The address includes every mail item, scanned in full; junk is recycled. We tell you at 15 calls. A small package (a padded envelope or small box, up to 1 lb) is scanned like a letter. A larger package is $5, billed when it arrives; for anything over 20 lb or larger than a shoebox, we email you before accepting it. Packages are held 30 days, then forwarded at $4 a shipment plus postage. Hours are 8am to 8pm ET, every day.
Refunds
Our fee comes back within 14 days of the charge, no questions asked: write to hello@gardenstate.agency. State fees are never refunded by us; one comes back only if the state refunds it. Nothing comes back once a filing you asked for has gone to the state, and a formation paid by 3pm ET on a business day is filed that day. If the state rejects the name, the rename is free. After that, service runs to the end of the period you paid for. A payment under If we miss a promise in the Standard, or under If we ever close, is not a refund under this rule and is paid as those sections say.
If we miss a promise in the Standard
Each article of the Standard carries a remedy. Article I: a fee you did not see in writing before you paid is refunded, and the same amount paid again, double the amount in all. Article II: a state late fee that follows a letter we received for your company and did not pass on to you is ours to pay. Article III: if we do not remind you of a state deadline on the schedule shown in your account, we pay the state’s late fee and file the late document at no charge. Article IV: if a renewal price changes before you hear it from us, you renew at the old price for another year. Article V: anything charged over a state’s fee is refunded, and the same amount paid again. Article VI: if leaving takes more than two clicks in your account, or a file we hold is not handed over, your last month of a monthly line, or the agent’s last year, is refunded in full. The remedies under Articles II and III together are capped at $500 per company per year; the others are paid in full. A late fee here means the flat fee a state charges when an annual report is late or a company must be reinstated; New Jersey charges none for a late report, so there it means the fee to reinstate. No remedy covers taxes, interest, or IRS or state penalties, including those for Form 5472, or a miss that follows from contact details or dates you gave us that were wrong or out of date. To claim, write to hello@gardenstate.agency within 90 days of learning of the miss; we answer within two business days and pay within ten business days of accepting the claim, to the card or account you paid with.
Leaving
Leaving takes two clicks in your account. Service runs to the end of the period you paid for. If a monthly card fails, nothing stops at first: the card is retried, and the final notice goes on day 13. From day 15 the monthly services pause: ordinary mail is held and calls go to voicemail, while legal papers served on us as your registered agent are always received and scanned. On day 45 the monthly services end; restarting within 30 days after that is a new subscription at the same price, with no new intake. We never resign as your registered agent without 60 days’ notice to you, so you can name a new agent first; the resignation then takes effect as the statute says, generally 30 days after it is filed with the state, or when you name a new agent, whichever is earlier.
If we ever close
If Garden State Agency ever closes, every client is told at least 180 days ahead and every file is handed back. For the remainder of any paid term, the client chooses either a hand-off of the registered agent service to a licensed agent we arrange, at no extra charge, or a refund of the unstarted months.
Ten or more companies
$29 a year per company in New Jersey, $69 a year in any other state. Where a state or its agent charges to release a document, it costs $21, or $31 for a company without active agent service. Never held.
If something goes wrong
. The team answers, and if the mistake is ours, we say so and fix it.