Being required to disclose your personal address to your tenants?

[Jennifer Rysdam]

Our MN State landlord and tenant brochure states the following:
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Landlord Disclosure

Landlords must provide their tenants, in writing, with the name and address of:

1. The person authorized to manage the premises.(235)
2. The owner of the premises or the owner’s authorized agent (the person or entity that will be receiving any notices or demands).(236)

The addresses given must be a street address, not a post office box number, because it must be an address at which papers can be served (handed to the recipient). The disclosure can be inserted in the lease or can be put in some other written form. It must also be printed or typed and posted by the landlord in some clearly visible place on the premises.(237)

The disclosure is important because the tenant must be able to contact the landlord or agent when repairs are needed or other problems arise. Also, a landlord cannot take any legal action against a tenant to recover rent or to evict the tenant unless the disclosure has been given.(238)

Tenants who move out of a rental unit, or sublet their unit without giving the owner 30 days’ written notice, lose the protection of the disclosure law. (239)

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How do you deal with that? I'm not so sure I want to give out my address on the wall of my apartment building, or hand it out to my tenants. I self-manage.