Hey there Everyone! Long Story Short: We are a start up business and made a newbie mistake, that ended up in us HAVING to change our LLC name. We were just about to open our bank account when this happened... I panicked and did not do any research and changed our name with the state right away. In hindsight I now know I should have gone the DBA Route... Problem is: Banks will not open an account when our State name does not match our EIN name even thought the state paper work says "formerly known as: XYZ LLC" which matches the EIN name. I have already mailed the IRS with our name change and our new state certificate, that was about a month and half ago. I have been calling and calling hoping it updates one day, so we can get it faxed to us ASAP. At first they told us 30-60 days to process the name change but now they are saying 30-90 days... and we are getting worried/stressed. We really need to get this company up off the ground. We have already gained quite the following and they are getting inpatient for our launch (so are we 😅) My question is: Are we stuck like chuck until that name changes with the IRS? or are there other options we can go with? We thought about opening a temporary "personal" account just to get things started that way it isn't mixed up with our actual personal accounts. But I really do not want to do that.. I do not want our personal assets at risk hence going the LLC route. Will they only be at risk while we have our funds in that account and the risk go away when we move to a business account? \-OR- Can we still do a DBA? saying "old name llc" DBA "new name LLC" ? or is it too late for that? Please do not say "you need to speak with a \[insert professional here\]". If I had access to such professionals I would not be coming to reddit. Like I said we are a start up and we do not have that kind of capital yet... Once we gain capital we absolutely will be obtaining the necessary professionals but for now that is not in the cards. Thank you in advance for any and all advice!