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Watch this short video first. Unfortunately, it's a lot like the world is today...
just another deluded woodworker who thinks hes going to get rich building custom made furniture.
What are you talking about? The dough is rolling in here. Wait, I got the flow wrong, it is going the other way. Never mind.
The extent of licensing, insurances, liabilities, inspections, and other requirements are nearly unbelievable at times. My property management business required business liability, office liability, errors & omissions liability, bonding (both me and the employees), also-named-insured riders for the clients, workers comp insurance, etc, along with state and federal tax registrations, state corporation fees/taxes, county and city (five different cities!) licensing, fire and safety inspections (by both the government and the insurance carriers), monthly filing - and paying - of receipts taxes, employee federal and state withholding taxes and Social Security/Medicare taxes, and a whole bunch of other bureaucratic rigmarole. It's a wonder I ever had time to actually DO any business!
I try to never write them all down on one piece of paper, It would make me have a auction.
Picked up the mail yesterday and the state added another $300 a year to my cost through a manditory continuing education program. Last year it was the EPA and their Lead Certification, and I just recieved someting from the DEQ that I have to get approved, with the appropriate fees of course, if I build anything within 500 feet of a waterway, never mind that the planning and zoning already hit me up if I am within 500 feet of a waterway. I always build within 500 feet of a waterway........
I am in the process of writing a letter to our new governor, but I keep having to shorten it up.....
...Picked up the mail yesterday and the state added another $300 a year to my cost through a manditory continuing education program...