Thanks, Rec, for generously sharing a trove of accumulated wisdom!
If MJTK pays off as well financially as the informative posts here have done providing a treasure house of knowledge, we will have all been made doubly wealthy!!
Excellent Post ! If I may, I would only add your DD list, to check the SOS (Secretary of State) business filings, iHUB has a link to every SOS site to look for amendments to their Articles of Incorporation: