Can or should you use a residential address for Google places?

[itrogers]

My first thought is no. But I am definitely looking for some loopholes. If there is any way to make this work, please share your thoughts.

[joseph.chambers]

many people run home businesses. I would say: Yes. They can send you a letter and you will get it. I have a DBA name with my home address. My answer is YES.

[NoahGlaser78]

Only if you are running a home business. You will want to do citations to your places page to boost its credibility so it is best that it is a real address that you use for your business.

If you do not use that address for your business then I would say no you should not

[anjonr]

You definitely can use your home address. I work at home and have a Google places account for my business. As far as loopholes go I don't know of any. You have to do standard optimization for you account with citations and reviews.

[fun52dig]

I actually run two businesses from my home and both have the same address in Google Places.  But they are completely different businesses in completely different industries with different phone numbers.  I've been running one business for 4 years and the other for two years and I do pretty well ranking locally with both businesses.  You also have the option not to show the complete address.  So my answer based on my success is yes!

[Gyi]

Yes.