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January 29, 2008
running a business out of your apartment?
Hi,
are there any legal problems I would encounter if I decided to start seeing clients at my co-op apartment?
thanks,
Comments
Yeah. Termination of your proprietary lease. Read it.
Posted by: guest at January 29, 2008 6:11 PM
Maybe you can see clients but not patients?
Posted by: Ysabelle at January 29, 2008 6:54 PM
Read your proprietary lease. Some coops allow some form of home-based businesses, some don't. If no one complains, you may get away with it anyway. Don't ask, don't tell. Who's to say whether they are clients or friends? Only you know how strict the board is, or how nosy your neighbors are. In any event, the board will not be able to sue you or terminate your lease without informing you first that you are in violation of the lease and/or house rules and giving you an opportunity to fix the problem.
Denton
Posted by: denton at January 29, 2008 7:35 PM
If your clients are "Johns" I dont see any problem with that at all.
In fact let us know your contact info and we may become "clients" too.
Posted by: guest at January 29, 2008 9:09 PM
To 9:09pm
You .assume the Op is a woman and that automatically makes her a
whore by profession.
Hey guys, get a life .....not in the life.
Go back to reading playboy.
Posted by: Ysabelle at January 29, 2008 9:38 PM
Ysabelle, you assume 9:09 is a straight male and hoping that the OP is a woman. You are equally wrong.
OP, don't try to hide your business from the board. Over half the owners in my coop work from home/operate a business from their apts. As far as I know, none regularly have clients in and out though. If you are looking at buying a place, fess up ahead of time.
Posted by: guest at January 29, 2008 11:02 PM
Ysabelle - As usual, you overreact to a posters pithy, if off-color, remark with moral outrage and admonishment.
BTW - The OP is "Brooklyn Jennie" I would say it is a fair assumption they are a female.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 8:00 AM
You have to look at the coop rules first.
Second you might have to check with the city but I think that is only for commercial and industrial use, not home office use. If you are running a yoga/ dance/ massage service that would probably fall under commercial use not office.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/violations/padlock.shtml
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 10:26 AM
as the OP- It is about some one in my building. I am not the one with the "clients"- who would actually be patients (therapy business). There also might be a pilates people who stop by on occasion. It is a mess and I am female. Thank you for the advice and help. I now have to read the very long co-op documents. Fun weekend ahead.
Posted by: brooklynjennie at January 30, 2008 11:38 AM
Pilates classes or Therapy sessions are Commercial operations. I can't imagine your coop board would allow it.
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:09 PM
If you are discreet anything goes.
Good Luck and good fortune.
Posted by: Ysabelle at January 30, 2008 12:19 PM
Allowing strangers in and out of the building constantly should not be looked at with an "anything goes" attitude. There is a privacy and safety issue here for all the owners in the building. I'd be furious if I learned someone was doing this in our old coop and I'd shut it down. So would anybody. Which would leave that business with no place to see their clients and months of lost revenues while they find an office. Why would that be considered even remotely worth the risk? If you need to see clients at home, buy a house. Like all the doctors used to do in Brooklyn. Or there are a lot of office spaces on garden levels in houses in Brooklyn. Look for one of those. My acupuncturist shares a space like that with some other people and they put up walls to form small private treatment areas. This is what it takes. Why cheat rules and perturb your neighbors if you're trying to set up a legitimate business?
Posted by: guest at January 30, 2008 12:41 PM
you seem really annoying.
Posted by: guest at January 31, 2008 8:38 PM
What if you're a freelance photographer and you don't have clients come to your place but you do your editing at home?
Posted by: guest at March 21, 2008 9:28 PM
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