07-18-2006, 09:28 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 20 | Floor Plans & Demographic Reports Two very important elements of opening a new tanning salon are a demographic report and a floor plan design. Knowing how to best utilize every inch of your lease space can be very difficult. You have some ideas of what you want your salon to look like but getting it drawn out so your contractor knows exactly what you want and how to incorporate it with where doors, plumbing and electrical must be located can be quite a task. There are many ways to get a demographic report, but sorting through the numbers to get to the information that is pertinent to the success of a tanning salon can also be quite difficult. If you have decided to open a new tanning salon, you can send me the address of the location you are interested in along with the dimensions of the space and location of the doors, pluming and electrical panel and I will pull a custom tanning salon demographic report, and design a floor plan created on a CAD program that will best utilize every inch of the space. You can also send any design ideas you have. I will provide these documents FREE to any potential new salon owners. Please send your request to my email address. Please include your name and contact information. These documents are just two of the steps that will get you on your way to opening your new salon. Because creating these documents are very time consuming, I ask that the floor plan only be requested by people that are planning on opening a new salon. If you are an existing salon owner or thinking about buying an existing salon I will be happy to send you a demographic report FREE. |
07-19-2006, 09:36 AM | #2 (permalink) | |
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Just use www.census.gov for all of your demographics studies. Most companies that are leasing any retail space, if they are reputable, will include a current demographic report in the leasing documents. This is one of the ways that they market existing or new retail developments, or if you use a broker, which will cost you nothing since the selling side pays the fees, have them present the demographics study to you, or have them attain it from the lessor/seller. As far as floorplans, there are a ton of architects out there who work for themselves and would be glad to help you with your plans for a small fee. Since they will use mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, etc. etc. to draw the plans for you, it is well worth the money. The Leasing company for any retail shop should have the CAD Drawings and would be more than willing to provide them to you, so that your architect can get started. I paid 2.50 per square foot for my architect to do my space, the total cost was 2,400 and was well worth it since the permitting requires the signed and stamped drawings from the architect. They will take into account, all of your beds electrical and AC requirements, so that there is absolutley no guess work involved. A good Tanning Bed Company will provide you with the COMPLETE specs of all of their beds, all the way down to what gauge wiring to use, how much ac per bed, how many hots and grounds, etc. etc. | |
07-19-2006, 01:06 PM | #3 (permalink) | |
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07-19-2006, 01:35 PM | #4 (permalink) | |
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you're not a bad man....just trying to let everyone know how and where to get things,,,,never said anything about paying for demo reports,,,read my post,,,,i explained a few ways to get them at no cost,,,and they are "specific" to the market,,,if you get them from the local sources I laid out in the post.... has nothing to do with being paranoid at all,,,it's all about education and letting everyone on here know ALL of the different ways to accomplish what they need to. You of all people, with your years of experience, should know that many many people will believe and listen to anything. Your motive is always geared towards making money, wither you say so or not. You charge for consulting, sell beds, etc. etc. If you tell me or anyone on here that you are not trying to gain business, then I hope you can sleep at night. It's real simple,,,,do all of the research that you can, and then some more,,,,get plenty of quotes for all work,,,use every resource available. You will see, there's a lot out there to get you where you need to be,,,you don't always have to pay, pay, pay | |
07-19-2006, 03:24 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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It is good that you follow all of my post and have post in return, the conversations that you and I are having allow a lot of information to be exposed and gives people choices like go get a census report and try and make heads or tails from it or get a custom Tanning Salon report with only the information that is needed to evaluate a location. And they are both free. Thank you excited guy for keeping these threads active. I bet if you had a friend that needed an attorney you would tell them, don't get an attorney, wait until they assign a public defender they are free and you get the same thing. | |
07-19-2006, 03:43 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 20 | Re: Floor Plans & Demographic Reports Excitedguy, I just took the time to look at all of the threads that you started. You where exactly the person that needed help and was not sure where to get it. you where armed with bits and pieces of information that took you two years to put together. Everyone should go back and look at the threads that you started, this is a perfect example of why people need help. You just started building your salon and yet now you are an expert on what new salon owners should do. From what I read I would bet the ranch that you are leaving lots of potential income on the table. One of the first things you needed help with is not being able to tell your architect how much AC you need. My clients never struggle with any of the issues you where here looking for help with. You got lots of different answers, which answer was the correct one? Nothing like getting some qualified help. |
07-19-2006, 05:55 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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Again, POINT BLANK, YOU ARE SOLICITING A SEERVICE AND TRYING TO MAKE MONEY, BUT YOU HAVE A HARD TIME CALLING A SPADE AND SPADE. \ If you want to mak a liviing consulting aand solicit on this site, I have no problems with that, all I was tryiing to do was point out that with a little self motivation, due dilligence and investigating, people can do most of this on their own. Aas far as leaving money on the table. I would love to know how you can come to this conclusion when you know nothing about my market, my business plan, my current pricing structure, etc. etc. You need tto stop assuming that EVERYONE out here is dumb and neds a hand to hold. | |
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excuse all of the typos, my keyboard is almost dead here | |
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