[757labs] Starting a business

[Nathan McGuirt]

Call the city or call a lawyer on that one. Last thing you want is for the city to yank your business license at an inopportune time.



On Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 6:53 PM, James Blandford wrote:

> Say someone wants a gaming pc built. I buy the parts, build and then customer pays me when I drop it off to them. How would that qualify mm
> On Mar 31, 2012 6:34 PM, "Nathan McGuirt" <nathan at meltphace.org (mailto:nathan at meltphace.org)> wrote:
> > Norfolk has requirements around inventory. They don't want you stocking inventory at your house to sell in a retail fashion, and they want you to say that your customers aren't coming to your house. If you want to do those things, Norfolk expects you to rent/lease/borrow commercial space somewhere to keep your inventory, at which point it's no problem. It's a zoning thing, they dont' want manufacturing or retail operations running on residential property.
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> > On Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Trevor Lewis wrote:
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> > > Honestly there isn't much difference between assembly and manufacturing, except assembly is effectively a subtask of manufacturing. It was explained to me (for business purposes) that assembly results in more parts, while manufacturing results in a salable finished product.
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> > > IANAL. However and the very best possible advice I can give you is that if you have any doubts at all, talk to a lawyer who specializes in this field. I had to go back and "fix it" after starting my first business, and that resulted in a lot more lawyer time that it would have to just get it right in the first place.
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> > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:04 PM, James Blandford <barron.james at gmail.com (mailto:barron.james at gmail.com) (mailto:barron.james at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > > I would think so, but Norfolk is weird as crap when it comes to it's laws.
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> > > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Dave Johnson <proletroll at gmail.com (mailto:proletroll at gmail.com) (mailto:proletroll at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > > > Wouldn't that be "assembly?"
> > > > > On Mar 31, 2012 3:50 PM, "James Blandford" <barron.james at gmail.com (mailto:barron.james at gmail.com) (mailto:barron.james at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > > > > True. Would building a computer count as manufacturing? I am in norfolk by the way.
> > > > > > On Mar 31, 2012 3:44 PM, "Scott Dorsey" <kludge at panix.com (mailto:kludge at panix.com) (mailto:kludge at panix.com)> wrote:
> > > > > > > Hmm... why no manufacturing at home? What if you're stuffing PC boards
> > > > > > > in your basement or something? How do you go about getting that approved?
> > > > > > > --scott
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