Why Don’t Cities Appreciate Our Home Businesses?

gift basket businesses are often conducted at home You start a business making gift baskets, and your enterprise does a lot more good than harm in your region. It:

Creates goodwill between neighbors and businesses

Builds your professional status, pays your bills and keeps you employed

Adds tax revenue to your state (or country if outside of the U.S.)

With all of this goodness, and much more that I haven’t mentioned here, why don’t cities bring their home-based business rules up to speed with the way people make money today?

Everyone doesn’t work in a traditional office, and some of us would rather not. I can understand that there must be rules for people who work at home, but it seems that many cities don’t want to know you work there or, if they find out, they immediately want you to stop.

I’ve often said in my classes that we don’t hurt children or animals, and we’re not employing or exploiting minors or illegal residents. Our deliveries don’t clog up the roadways anymore than orders that arrive to people receiving items from home shopping shows.

So what’s the problem? Can we be allowed to make gift baskets that foster good business and goodwill between people without the threat of cease-and-desist letters?

I discuss this situation in depth in the book, How to Start a Home-Based Gift Basket Business, which includes methods to persuade city officials to let you conduct business from the comfort of your home.

What’s going on in your city? Is your business embraced, or do you have to keep your location under wraps?

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