Cheap Ghz SMD resistors

That is one full house. I guess your only options would be a granny flat or another building close by. The beauty of being self-employed is not being away from home so much but with an office building somewhere in town that advantage would go away.

There's a little business development about 2 miles from here that has some flex space I have my eye on. Ground floor, southern exposure, lots of windows, electrics good for running servers...but they want $19/sq foot, including nothing but the base rent and the base year's taxes. After dividing the space it would be around 1500 sq ft, which is more than I need, but would be about right for me and one or two colleagues. I have a pal from church who's a real estate guru, fortunately, so hopefully I can avoid stepping on any land mines in the process. (I'm not going to sign any multi-year leases without incorporating first--I'm much too attached to my sleep.)

The granny flat would be another possibility, but it would look weird bolted on to a raised ranch, which might make the place hard to sell. I've thought about putting a glassed-in solarium on the back of the house, which would be great in spring and fall (NY being NY). ;)

None of that will matter unless my ship really comes in, of course--we'll see. It would be a lot cheaper to move to Florida, either way!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Less than a mile from me, in a small neighborhood mall (ACE Hardware, Walgreen's, dentist, restaurants, etc.) they have a sign out advertising 500 sq.ft. individual suites with a central receptionist, $600/month ;-)

No use to me, I have ample space... I just need to convince the son and sons-in-law to dig me a wine cellar ;-)

...Jim Thompson

That's $19/sqft per year, right? That would be roughly what space goes for out here.

Then they won't throw in much in tenant improvements but that's usually ok for a consulting business.

I meant as a separate building in the yard, not attached. Attachments can really look yucky and destroy the character of a house. Maybe make it look like a nice barn.

From a business perspective a place like Montana might be better. But for my wife it would be too freaking cold out there. Maybe Arkansas, Alabama?

Good grief, we're renting (from ourselves, sort of, which means we're actually buying it) 15,000 square feet, 4 blocks from San Francisco City Hall, for about $11.50/sqft triple-net. You'd think there would be lots of abandoned industrial space available cheap these days.

John

We try to remember to seed our boards with ground vias, for grounding probes near the interesting stuff.

John

There is. There's a huge empty place a few miles away--20000 ft main building--Tudor stone--plus 5 large houses of the same style, sprinkled around on a beautiful 21 acre campus overlooking the Hudson River--asking $3.5m. Bit out of my price range, however. ;)

(It's a strange place--sort of like the Marie Celeste. It's been sitting open, with papers on the desks, copy machines, books on the shelves, all from the 1970s. Weirdest place you can imagine.)

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

There are a lot of nice homes for sale down here in North Central Florida, along with some business space that's reasonable. Another idea that you can do around here is buy a portable garage for a small home shop. They are delivered fully assembled and wired. Add a large portable storage building, and you have enough room for a one man operation.

There is no state income tax, food is reasonable and the utility rates are lower than some other areas of the country. I have I 75 a few miles from me, and a decent airport on the other side of town.

There are some old motels for sale cheap. The offices usually have a manager's apartment. Several have been converted to other business uses. Cut a few doorways out between some of the motel rooms and you have office space, Others can be used for the kids, or if a customer is there overnight. :)

Buy or build a rental storage business, and make money off it while having all the space you need in a couple large spaces. Lots of possibilities down south.

A 120,000 square foot complex recently sold for $1,000,000. That was $8.33 a square foot to own it.

Wine cellar? You would need the Grand Canyon! ;-)

Phil, Don't know where you are located, or what lot size you have. A few years ago, while looking into buying manufactured housing, I found several different little 'houses' that would make good offices. One such is:

There were better ones available, but I can't find them now. One had a large living room, kitchenette, and small 'bedroom' area that would have made a great office space.

Charlie

Yeah, when I was getting to move in here, a little old '60s era motel was on the market in Borrego. It was fully solar powered, had like ten rooms, plus the manager's space, for $450K. I was tempted, but had decided to move out of Borrego by that time. The pool was nice, though.

Charlie

Thanks. I can't get to that web site because they seem to use a lot of VBScript, which Firefox doesn't support. I'll certainly think about it, though--I could do a lot with even 500 square feet. Of course the zoning round here is pretty ferocious....

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Ok, a little more searching found:

These are kinda pretty, and would be ideal for office an lab space!

Charlie

Whoops! Just posted another link to I don't know what thread...

Here is the nice one I was thinking of...

Pretty, and yet very efficient!

Charlie

If you have no regular customer traffic and just work from home, what can they do? If they prohibited work from home that's called discrimination and a class would rather quickly be formed :-)

I meant building something in the back yard. Round here you get a ticket for having a small sailboat in your back yard. :(

Briarcliff Manor NY: All the fun of a HOA with police enforcement to boot.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

They would try, trust me. However, without traffic it's hard to tell. The issue here, I think, is the added "manufactured housing" space. Westchester CO will *certainly* balk at that. An office in his basement would never be found, unless his server (or other) farm was enough to make the meter spin.

That would get my blood boiling and I'd be outta there rather soon ;-)

Everyone should flee the nanny states, before they get nannied ;-) ... ...Jim Thompson