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300 Commerce, Llc

Filed as 300 COMMERCE, LLC · taxpayer 32015260279 · on the county rolls as SMITH JIM RENTALS LLC · mail to 300 S COMMERCE ST A LOCKHART TX 78644Matched to a Texas filing
$2,399,337Market value
7Properties
11,869Sq ft living area
≈5Units estimated from floor area

The unit figure is the only estimate in that row: floor area divided by 900 square feet, so it is the third figure restated

Portfolio totals

7parcels on the rolls

4 of them are inside the registry lookup scope

≈5units, estimated

Floor area divided by 900 sq ft, not a count

$2,399,337total market value

County roll value across all 7 parcels

$343,180median parcel value

The middle parcel, which a total hides

County spread
Caldwell 6, Travis 1
ZIPs
78644, 78747
Parcels whose tax bill leaves Texas
0 of 7
Parcels flagged owner-occupied
0 of 7
Most recent purchase date on the roll
2012-11-19
Earliest purchase date on the roll
12600

Source: 2 county appraisal rolls · roll year 2025 to 2026 · purchase dates are the roll's own recent-purchase field and are not reliable deed dates

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The Texas business filing behind this name

Filing we matched
300 COMMERCE, LLC
Name we searched
SMITH JIM RENTALS LLC
Taxpayer number
32015260279
Right to transact business
ACTIVE
Secretary of State status
ACTIVE
Effective registration
2004-06-17
State of formation
TX
Texas SOS file number
0800354644
Registered agent
AMELIA P SMITH
Filing mailing address
120 E MARKET ST STE 101 LOCKHART TX 78644

Source: Texas Comptroller franchise tax registry · matched on the owner name as printed on the roll · 4 registry rows carry this owner

Every property on the rolls under this owner

7 parcels held by this owner, with size, age, acquisition date, and market value
Parcel IDAddressCountyMarket value Sq ftBuiltAcquired
000000016845300 S COMMERCE ST LOCKHART 78644caldwell$912,9607,620196412614
000000018857215 BUFKIN LN LOCKHART 78644caldwell$457,5302,676197816412
3509632203 ONION CREEK PKWY AUSTIN TX 78747travis$371,2771,57319842012-11-19
000000079024BLACKJACK ST LOCKHART 78644caldwell$343,1800not on the roll14788
000000044470611 STATE PARK RD LOCKHART 78644caldwell$120,0300not on the roll12600
000000044355603 STATE PARK RD LOCKHART 78644caldwell$104,8200not on the roll15267
000000044469609 STATE PARK RD LOCKHART 78644caldwell$89,5400not on the roll12600
7 properties$2,399,33711,869

Values are the county market value on the roll, not a sale price · roll year 2025 to 2026

The people who signed for the filing

Member
JAMES SMITH JR
Member
JAMES W SMITH JR

Source: Texas Comptroller franchise tax registry · officer home addresses are in the filing and are not shown, and there is no search by person name here

Companies linked to this one

Nothing else in this data shares an officer, a registered agent, or a mailing address with this filing. That is a real answer about this owner, not a blank

Shared officer

The same person is named on both filings. This is the strongest link here, and the one worth naming out loud

Shared mailing address

Both filings collect mail at the same address. Suggestive, and worth a second look, but shared suites happen

Shared registered agent

Both hired the same filing service. Weakest line on the diagram, drawn faint on purpose: these firms sign for thousands of unrelated companies

How to read the end of a chain

A chain can end three ways, and the difference matters. Two of them are answers. One of them is a gap in what we know, and it is drawn as a gap so you never mistake it for an answer

Matched

The name on the roll lines up with a Texas business filing. We show both names side by side so you can reject a bad match yourself

25,455 owners of the 71,735 inside the coverage rules, 35.5% so far

No record

We searched and Texas has no business registration under this name. That is a finding, not a miss: plenty of rentals are held by a person or an out-of-state entity that never registered here. The line stops on a hard bar because the search finished

37,870 owners so far

No answer

No usable answer came back for this name. Almost all of these are lookups the registry rejected outright, which is our query failing, not Texas reporting that nothing is filed. That claim is the middle column, and this is not it. We do not know either way here, so the line trails off dashed and open

8,410 owners in scope: rejected lookup or never queried

One more case borrows that same dashed ending: a parcel outside the coverage rules. The registry was never asked about it, on purpose, so the chain is a gap here too, and the page names the rule that put it outside instead of implying an answer is on its way. 147,384 of the 2,117,593 parcels on the rolls are inside the rules

11.7%

of the 71,735 owners inside the coverage rules have no registry answer. The scrape has finished, so these are not owners waiting in a queue: almost all of them are lookups the registry rejected. Read them as unknown, never as unregistered