Disadvantages to Hiding Business Address on Google Places?

[Jazee]

From a Local SEO standpoint, wouldn't hiding a business address on Google Places for Business create an SEO disadvantage in that I would expect in the local portion of the search results, there would be a bias to showing businesses that have not hidden their address as then you can place a pin on the map at the location?  Or from a Local SEO standpoint does it not matter if you hide your address or not?

[webtematica]

As James says, i can see the case where we should hide the address, the self-unimployers usually works at home, and sometimes we don´t want to put our own home, but we must find a solution and put some address to get the most of Google Business

[JamesNorquay]

Probably not wise to hide the business address, it might impact on how it ranks from a local point of view.

The only reason I can see someone would want to hide an address is if they wanted to shut down a location or move a location.

[webtematica]

I think if you hide it matters in a negative way, but i´ve been making some experiments, i took away the pin and i used a hole city, my address gets hidden, but i think i can be showed in more parts of my city.