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Running Your Business From Mini Storage

By on August 30, 2012 in Ideas

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Do you need cheap office space? Does your business not really need a main-street storefront? In this inspiring article in Honolulu Magazine, you’ll read about a number of small business entrepreneurs who run their businesses out of storage units. Examples of businesses run out of storage units in the article include: a personal trainer, a wedding dress retailer, a divorce attorney, a LOST tour operator, an upholstery repair shop and a collectible toy store.

Divorce is what family law attorney Pablo Quiban does, and he does it right out of a Kapolei storage unit.

“I use my cellphone. I have my photocopier and desk, bookshelves with my Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Hawaii Digest, and some of my manuals.”

When family court moved to Kapolei, Quiban found office space for dentists and doctors, but not lawyers. StorSecure advertised units for small businesses, so Quiban decided to try it, just for a month. That was last October.

“For the first 20 years of my law practice I was driving to town every day from Mililani,” he said. With the new place convenient to court and home, and business still humming, Quiban has decided he’s not going anywhere.

“I’m looking to practice for, at the most, another 10 years. The price is right and so long as the cases keep on coming, I’ll stay here.”

His clients seem unbothered by his stripped-down location. “They’ve been receptive to it. There’s free parking—downtown it’s ridiculous—and it’s just a matter of giving people the right directions. I say just look for the Burger King and hang a left!”

Photo by lonely radio.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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    Some small business owners seeking to save money by downsizing or become more professional and attract customers somewhere other than their garage or backyard storage unit have discovered that they can run their business directly from their self storage unit. This idea saves money and can be an excellent idea for those just starting out with their small business, but it is ill-advised for those running a computer business. Unless the mini storage is a climate-controlled unit, the unit will become extremely hot or cold (depending on the time of year) and computers, computer parts, and sensitive equipment can be damaged, sometimes beyond repair.

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    ot all mini storage facilities allow people to run their business from the unit itself. As before mentioned, security is a major concern, and some facilities ban the running of a business directly from the unit for this reason alone. While other concerns can be factors (such as adequate parking for customers or risks to other units), security is usually the primary reason for not allowing businesses to be run from a unit.

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