Opening a shop, need help.

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

Well my neighbor and I used to rebuild muscle cars every summer and he would teach me all the tricks of the trade cause he is in his 40s and has been doing it for a long time. Then he would sell them at shows and to friends in Finland (where hes from). He recently got some more investors from Finland and Russia that really love our work and these cars go there for crazy amounts of money. Well he currently bought a shop that houses 12 cars and has a paint room. I worked at a shop for about two years so I know the basics. His real job is a mechanical engineer and I am going for accounting so neither of us really know the legal parts of opening a shop. If you guys could please help and let me know what we all have to do to be a legal shop that be great.

Fire Regulations?

Osha?

MSDS sheets?

anything else?

Thanks much

Click to read more...

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

guess no one knows about opening shops

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

here in ohio weve got something called one stop connection where they give all information about how to start a business, paper work that needs to be filed, things like that. maybe ur state has something like that?

maybe contact BBB? maybe theyll be able to point you in the right direction.

 

[60ndown 10+ year member]

forget accounting, if you got ins on a custom car shop, you wanna spend the next 30 years in an office or bumping tunes in your shop while you trick cars?

 

[SRim23 5,000+ posts]

forget accounting, if you got ins on a custom car shop, you wanna spend the next 30 years in an office or bumping tunes in your shop while you trick cars?

im gonna say more money if he part owns the shop, doing paperwork in the office. you dont see will castro getting dirty but hes gettin hella rich.

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

go to your local court house...they usually have info on stuff like that...talk to some kind of county rep.

you will have many people coming out to inspect this and that...

at least in arkansas anyway...

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

- Business license

- Incorporation

- Assume that the building he's in is actually "zoned" for the type of work you guys will be doing there

- Head to the town hall to see about local bylaws regulating your operations

- Any state laws for operating said business (if any)

- Tax licenses

- Certification(s) for handling potentially hazardous goods (if any - check the town regulations)

- Insurance (building, fire, theft, etc.) - any local insurance company can help you here as well can guide you through some of the other rules

- Did he sign a lease on the building or is it month-to-month rent?

 

[bumpin buick 5,000+ posts]

- Business license- Incorporation

- Assume that the building he's in is actually "zoned" for the type of work you guys will be doing there

- Head to the town hall to see about local bylaws regulating your operations

- Any state laws for operating said business (if any)

- Tax licenses

- Certification(s) for handling potentially hazardous goods (if any - check the town regulations)

- Insurance (building, fire, theft, etc.) - any local insurance company can help you here as well can guide you through some of the other rules

- Did he sign a lease on the building or is it month-to-month rent?

Building is leased for a year, and is zoned for automotive work because the other shops to the left and right are also automotive shops owned by the same person.

So town hall would be the place to go then with the most information?

 

[kross 10+ year member]

Try the Small Business Administration, http://www.sba.gov

 

[monarae21 10+ year member]

check your local city hall.......cause in your paint areas theres alot of must haves.....or you will get closed down and fined so fast