Using Home As Business Address

AlanKee

Hi,

I'm in the process of setting up a business but it is one that I can't expect to have a clientele without doing groundwork first. Initially I'm thinking of using my home address as a place to get and receive mail though if I can build up a clientele I will be finding a venue to conduct the business. Does this pose any legal/mortgage/insurance problems as currently it is literally just me working on my own and no customer has stepped over the threshold?

Ultramate

Hi, I do not know, but have just seen this:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056648603

Hopefully it will help a bit

Good luck,
Ed.

Gloomtastic!

Ultramate wrote: »

Hi, I do not know, but have just seen this:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056648603

Hopefully it will help a bit

Good luck,
Ed.

If you don't have a dedicated office, ie work from the kitchen table or corner of the spare room then you shouldn't have to pay rates.

You will be able to claim for a portion of your utility bills as business expenses but not mortgage or rent.

tiptops

Could you go down the route of buying a portacabin and installing in your garden, Filling cabint, office desk, no water, no power, just a simple 10x8 cabin. I see alot of these where people sell cars from there home. Im talking about outside dublin. not in a housing estate ect.

Regards

Ultramate

Tiptops,

1. How do you get your laptop/desktop computer powered up?
2. What about lighting? I have seen them being used in DIT, but without lighting it wouldn't be a good idea...

3. You still go into the toilet during the day, don't you?

4. Price...

5, 6, 7 ....


Heh, clever idea for some situation anyways.

Tabnabs

It could have planning implications, here's a good background written from the side of the small business person

http://www.riai.ie/uploads/files/Architects_working_from_Home_Landuse_Implications.pdf

Ultramate

Does that mean one cannot run a home based business without legally 'converting' a premise into the business work area?

Gloomtastic!

Ultramate wrote: »

Does that mean one cannot run a home based business without legally 'converting' a premise into the business work area?

I run my business from the kitchen table, my office is my iPhone.

What type of business are you trying to run?

Ultramate

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056669078

I would be running it from the table in a living room or maybe from my own room.

hytrogen

Ultramate wrote: »

Tiptops,

1. How do you get your laptop/desktop computer powered up?
2. What about lighting? I have seen them being used in DIT, but without lighting it wouldn't be a good idea...

3. You still go into the toilet during the day, don't you?

4. Price...

5, 6, 7 ....


Heh, clever idea for some situation anyways.

1 & 2 are solved with a car battery, voltage regulator & solar panel
3 bucket, shovel & pit - We be green don't we? :-P

mneylon

Ultramate wrote: »

Does that mean one cannot run a home based business without legally 'converting' a premise into the business work area?

It depends where you live.

Some housing estates have very strict zoning which does not allow businesses to operate there

Having said that, if your business doesn't involve lots of delivery vehicles and people parking outside etc etc., then it might not impact you.

Ultramate

Blacknight, thank you for an input. Much appreciated

I already thought about legality of it.. I also think that it does apply to me because I live in the middle of a private housing estate where are lost of kids in the streets, or around, pretty often and most of the days. Moreover, Lease Agreement states that 'No business can be run from an apartment'... You can try go around it, but I doubt it would be worth the trouble.

So I am pretty clear now that I would have to look for a corner to work from and some space to keep all the stuff. Shed kind of space is plenty for me, yet even that costs and is hard to find these days.