technocraft wrote:
Is meeting with someone who is not your client and discussing the prospect of doing business the same as "doing business"?
Depends on your municipality and their eagerness to extract tax from you & enforce their zoning regulations.
There are lots of home based businesses that attract no attention but if you have a steady stream of clients coming back & forth for meetings, picking up prints, etc. and they are creating parking or other issues then someone may complain. At that point the municipality would have to act and enforce their regulations.
Mike Mahoney wrote:
Depends on your municipality and their eagerness to extract tax from you & enforce their zoning regulations.
There are lots of home based businesses that attract no attention but if you have a steady stream of clients coming back & forth for meetings, picking up prints, etc. and they are creating parking or other issues then someone may complain. At that point the municipality would have to act and enforce their regulations.
reason why we are putting in a larger driveway to ahve 8 cars in it at a time. just in case someone complains.
swim_r wrote:
My day job is for an Insurance Inspections company. In almost every account we have if you have a business on the same property as a residence, your home or renters insurance gets cancelled, no questions asked.
I don't know who you work for, but MANY of today's businesses are run from a home. Even when you do your taxes there are calculations to determine how much of the home is designated for residency and business use.
BTW, State Farm is my insurance agent and it's never been a question over the years. Matter of fact, before I went with them I called around to several companies and there was no hint of an issue.
Consider homes/apartments above restaurants and other types of business that blanket the U.S.
Saad, If you took the extra cost of keeping the apartment as a studio and added that to your rent budget, could you rent a place nice enough and big enough to work as home and office/studio? And maybe even have enough left over to put some nice furniture and big prints in the office part? As it is now, would you be paying rent and utilities for both places?
cordellwillis wrote:
I don't know who you work for, but MANY of today's businesses are run from a home. Even when you do your taxes there are calculations to determine how much of the home is designated for residency and business use.
BTW, State Farm is my insurance agent and it's never been a question over the years. Matter of fact, before I went with them I called around to several companies and there was no hint of an issue.
Consider homes/apartments above restaurants and other types of business that blanket the U.S.
Or am I misunderstanding your statement?
There is a difference between having an office that you do work out of and having a business that has or creates foot traffic out of your home. Insurance is worried about the business that had foot traffic. I am not saying that you cant have a business in your residence, I am just saying check with your insurance company because under a lot of typical home policies having a business that creates foot traffic will cancel your policy.
