A community in California is considering a change to their home-based business law.
The article, published in North County Times, mentions which business types may be allowed and which ones will not be authorized.
This hot topic is long overdue, but it’s still not high enough on most town agendas even though our collective lifestyles are changing fast because of economics.
Is this issue on your city council’s agenda, and if so, would your gift basket business get the green light? Let’s consider three positives and three negatives.
Positives:
1. Increase in city tax revenues through your sales.
2. Less car pollution and traffic because you work in a home office.
3. Role model to area students.
Negatives:
1. Frequent UPS deliveries (but what’s frequent when some residents are home shopping addicts?).
2. Customers picking up their baskets (most of us don’t allow this anyway for insurance purposes).
3. Neighbors expecting you to perform favors for them because you’re home based (one reason why we stay silent about entrepreneurship).
Too many cities stick by their antiquated home-based business restrictions, and it’s tough to be the one to challenge them.
Small business attorney, Robin Gronsky, and I discussed many legalities on the CD, Legal Issues to Keep Your Company Out of Court.
Even though home-based laws are a broad subject, we covered lots of ground on this CD to provide you with a firm foundation before discussing specifics with an attorney in your area.
You’re not testing toxic gift baskets on children or animals, and you’re not employing non-citizens who make 1,000 bows per hour in your windowless basement for 10 cents a day.
All you want is to create gifts that strengthen connections between people and businesses, which also translates into creating a satisfying and rewarding life for yourself and your family. Is that too much for a city council to understand?
Are the home-based business laws in your area changing for the better, or is a life making gift baskets still a subject you don’t dare discuss with city officials?
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