it wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. i checked the name on line to make sure no one in my county was using it....then i had to drive up to mckinney tx to file the dba papers. that was the scary part for me as i'm not real great at freeway driving. i stayed on the service road as much as possible even though made it a much longer trip. at one point i got lost because the service road forked onto a different road some how and i had to get on the freeway for a few minutes. panic city but i figured it out. i was so relieved to finally get there! the drive back was better.