[pianotech] Probelm with Business License. Please help!

[David Skolnik]

Adding little to what's been said, consider two hypotheticals:
1) Would the requisite shop set-up be illegal if 
you were using it soley for your own personal use?
2) Would it constitute a violation if you were to 
bring work into that shop, but not charge for it?

How close are your neighbors?

It may not help, but it seems to highlight the illogical.

David Skolnik
Hastings on Hudson, NY





At 09:44 AM 7/15/2010, you wrote:
>Human nature, we usually give to much information.
>
>I concur with some others here. Reapply and let 
>them know that you have restructured your 
>business plan and will only do in home service. 
>You can always find a place to do action work if it comes in.
>
>Al -
>High Point, NC
>
>
>From: <mailto:frowninverter at gmail.com>Hy Cohen
>Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 5:47 AM
>To: <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>pianotech at ptg.org
>Subject: [pianotech] Probelm with Business License. Please help!
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>I just moved here to California a couple of 
>weeks ago, and am working on getting my business 
>plan assembled so I can soon start my piano tech business.
>
>As part of that process, I gave a call over to 
>my county to find out how much a business 
>license would be (I live outside the city 
>limits). They told me $415. But then they asked 
>where I would be operating my business, so I 
>explained to them that it would be a home-based 
>business where I will perform a majority of my 
>services at my clients’ location and that once 
>in a while I would take a part home to work on 
>using manual hand tools which are pretty quiet, 
>and that my business would not generate any 
>additional traffic, etc. She then asked me for 
>my address, so I gave it to her.
>
>Just as soon as I gave her my address she 
>announced that I could not run my business where 
>I live! She said the property is zoned as 
>agriculture, and because I would occasionally 
>bring something home with me to work on that it 
>would be considered a commercial operation which 
>would not be allowed under the property’s 
>zoning. Any thoughts
besides moving or 
>pretending I didn’t hear what the lady said? 
><grin> I’ve left messages for the city to find 
>out if I lived there if I would run into the 
>same problem, but they haven’t called back. In 
>your experience, am I likely to run into this 
>problem living in a city? We are planning to 
>move into a city in the near future. But with 
>this goofy problem, we might be moving sooner 
>rather than later. <grin> Thanks for your advice!
>
>Warmly,
>Hy
><mailto:frowninverter at gmail.com>frowninverter at gmail.com
>
>

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