Taking the step.....

[takarajewels]

Tomorrow, we sign the lease for the place behind our house for the business. Wish us well, and pray for us, please! This is both extremely exciting and extremely scary at the same time!

 

[Puffy]

Congratulations!! Keep us posted on how things go!

 

[ali.a.j]

Thanks... I will. We'll be very busy getting the build-out done over the next few weeks. I'll let y'all know when we move in (have our "grand opening)!

 

[Ivan J]

Don't forget to take before and after photos!

 

[Hugh]

Congrats! It must be so exciting! :grin:

 

[Lucas (2nd account)]

Well, we signed the contract for two years this afternoon. No turning back now, LOL! Our builder is supposed to come by later to look at what we have to work with and see if we can get some ideas for the buildout. He's a family friend so won't cost much (just feed him and his family a few hamburgers next Saturday, LOL!)

 

[Lee2332]

Congratulations!

 

[Pompal 09.]

Friend actually made it out last evening, and he, hubby, and I tossed around several different ideas, working with the space available. There's a post in the middle of the floor, which the building owner INSISTS can't come out because he thinks it's a weight-bearing post, but our friend says it isn't. We tossed around ideas for a while, and I brought up the fact that it probably wouldn't be a good idea to come into a new lease telling the guy who's owned the building for over 8 years that he's "wrong" about it, so we decided to work around the post.

We got a decent floor plan decided on that will give us three nice-sized rooms (one large enough for couples massages), a nice reception/retail area, a chair massage area, a "relax and recoup"/client education area, and an employees' breakroom/kitchen area that has a sink and incorporates one of the two bathrooms for "employees only", but it will be within the breakroom area so only we will even know about it.

We've also figured out that we can put a stacked laundry set in the closet next to the public bathroom (so not far to go at all for the washer plumbing), and that saves the larger, 8' x 8' room for storage/office.

With the post in the way and the way the doors and windows are laid out, this is going to be the best workable floorplan without making the treatment rooms too small to work in comfortably. If we can rent out one of the rooms that'll be fantastic; otherwise/until then, we each (DS, DH, and I) will each get our own treatment room.

Our friend says that he thinks it'll take about a week to build and maybe a couple of days to do the floor (it's painted cement now- we'll probably do peel- n- stick vinyl tiles in the treatment rooms with rugs over that and some sort of inexpensive short carpet in the "public" areas), and we'll need a day or so to paint, I guess.

We will have to hire a city-registered electrician and plumber for the small amount of "specialty" work that will need to be done, and the cost and timing will also depend on their part, as well as the city inspection stuff that'll need to happen before we can get our certificate of occupancy, but we should be able to open up before the end of February for sure, hopefully closer to the middle of the month (maybe run a Valentine's special in conjunction with the Grand Opening?).

Oh, and I still need to take my test. Hopefully that can happen before we open too, so that I'll basically only be waiting on the official license paperwork to arrive by then.

 

[in my own world :D]

What about parking?

3 treatment rooms with clients, plus the next appts waiting = 7-10 spaces.

 

[Pompal 09.]

There's plenty of parking available.

 

[AtYourService]

We got our PLLC set up today- should be able to continue processing paperwork by Wednesday (once we have verification of the filing)- go to the county, IRS EIN, bank, etc).

 

[Turkey Man]

Sending good vibes your way for great success.

~Sandra

 

[blue heart]

thank you!

we got the paperwork back via email from the state this afternoon- that was fast! and we went to city hall to get the building permit applications. if our builder will get a move on, we can be done pretty quckly!

 

[classy lady]

Hey Timedess -- I'm sure you're very busy taking care of things, but when you have time, please keep us posted on how the process is going!

 

[elle.]

Yes update! And if I may suggest, check out my specs in the section about our spaces. I used a peel and stick laminate floor that looks like real wood flooring. Even has graining. Very pretty and very inexpensive.
Ohh building is so exciting!!
Congrats!!! :hugs: