Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Tanning salon for sale in north Lakeland, FL, in a busy shopping center with good traffic.

The salon is 2600 +/- square feet, with ten individual rooms (eight are being used now), plus a huge back room and a large customer lounge up front.

Everything is owned outright, with no liens or loans to pay off. We purchased it at the beginning of 2008, but we have a few other businesses, and can't devote the proper amount of time to it. Would like to sell it to someone who can care for it the way it should be.

Sale includes all of the following:
* Eight total tanning units
4 - 20 minute beginner beds
2 - 15 minute medium beds
1 - 10 minute super bed
1 - 10 minute stand up booth
* Customer list of about 2600 current and/or past visitors
* Brand new reception desk
* Reception computer system with tanning software (SunTouch)
* 42" Plasma TV mounted on wall
* All lotion bottles and packets in inventory
* Brand new customer lounge set in waiting area
* Brand new vanity area beside bathroom for customers to use
* Boxes of extra bulbs
* Full signage above salon and by the road
* Complete website
* Lots more... we'll be happy to show you everything.

This is a true "turn key" business.

Asking price is $25,000. Feel free to make an offer.

Current lease is through July, 2010.

The equipment alone is worth that, and the total cost for the buildout and equipment was just over $100,000.

Contact me at 863-670-1550 or email info@totallytanlakeland.com.

Photos below:

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http://www.totallytanlakeland.com/im...merlounge2.jpg
http://www.totallytanlakeland.com/im.../level1bed.jpg
http://www.totallytanlakeland.com/im.../level2bed.jpg
http://www.totallytanlakeland.com/im.../level3bed.jpg
http://www.totallytanlakeland.com/im...alon/booth.jpg

More photos at the website, http://www.totallytanlakeland.com.

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Is this salon still for sale...will be in lakeland thurs-sat night!!

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Beautiful salon...needs some building up (rent $42000yr, sales not much above that!), but seller does not answer questions!!

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Sent you another email today... told you to let me know if you received it and haven't heard back yet. Hope you're getting my emails.

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Tried contacting you again today... no luck.

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

You must have called the wrong #. Try 203-720-0957 or my cell 203-558-8777.

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

And lets get this straight...you sent me another e-mail because I CALLED YOU. If you called me back, my phone never rang and you didn't leave a message, but now you have both numbers I can be reached at. If you called my buddy Jay, he never returns calls and we gave you his # ONLY if you had stuff for him to pick up since he lives .4 of a mile away!!
I would suggest not rocking the boat since you also gave me valuable info about a competitor that closed that I can now call the landlord and set up a shop with NICE QUALITY beds with less headache!! Trust me Liberty, you don't want to compete with a 19 year tanning veteran!!

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this is a beauty of a salon priced right...wish it were in my neck of the woods...here on the east coast those winter blues are helped via tanning....do allot of floridians tan considering the weather is usually mild and sunny and people can lay in the sun year round?

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Beauty of a price??? Did you get paid to say that?? The salon's rent is $3500 a month (x12 months=$42,000) and the salon is not grossing much more than that. Without payroll or advertising (which the salon needs), I figured the salon is in the hole atleast $10,000. Plus it is appx 2500 sqft and only has 8 units. After looking, you might only fit 4 more the way it is set up. My last salon was 1800 sqft and had 16 units!!! My buddy wants to buy it and I advised him against it...he is still interested!!
Sorry Jacked...can't agree with you here!!

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Rocking the boat? Where is this going? I tried contacting you by email and didn't hear back... so I posted here, the place where you initially found me at.

We know squat about the tanning business... we have several other successful businesses, and we intend to continue running those as we did before buying this salon. You know all of this already... and you also know that the two years before we bought it it made $105,000 and $90,000. We obviously aren't fit for the tanning industry, so we're selling it. If someone with your experience and know how were to take over, then I'm sure it would do much better.

I'm not sure why you are trying to devalue it and even make snide remarks to others who are posting here, even suggesting that we paid them to post.

For those playing along... my wife and I have not been hands on with this salon AT ALL. Our children have run it since basically day one. One daughter has moved on (going to pharmacy school), and the other two have now graduated high school and want to continue college in the fall. So, rather than hire someone else to come in, we've decided to sell. That's it... If you think you can make it profitable, then buy it, it's a great deal. If you don't think so, then don't buy it. And, if you want to rent out the space Planet Beach used to be in and be our direct competitor (that's the valuable information that he is referring to) then do that. We won't be here much longer anyway... either because we'll sell it, or we'll just get rid of the equipment once the lease is over next year.

Have a great day!

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Of course I only sent you another email because you called me. How else was I supposed to know to send you another email?

Here is the timeline, from my point of view:

1. I sent you an email with the info you requested.
2. I never heard back from you, so I assumed you weren't interested any longer. (I was right, based on your posts here.)
3. You posted here, saying I don't reply to questions, which is false.
4. You called me, asking if I had the info you requested. I told you I sent it once. We established that you didn't receive it, so I told you I would resend it, which I did 5 minutes later.
5. I added the line "please let me know that you received this" to the top of my second email, since we obviously had a problem the first time around.
6. I never heard back from you.
7. I posted here, saying I hope you received my emails because I hadn't heard back from you.
8. You posted here, obviously mad at me for something, and even implied that we were paying others to post positively about us.

So, tell me Todd, how was I out of line here?

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Tanman..Just curious??What type of equipment would you use to compete if you were to go where the Planet Garbage was?lol

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LYNARD...I do not want to open a salon in Lakeland, by best friend of 27 years does. I am just helping him since he in new to the industry and I have been in the industry since 1989!
Liberty, if you look at the dates of my posts they started BEFORE I called you and found out that you sent an e-mail that I never got. Then, after I called you and we established that, you resent it. Sorry I missed the line that said "let me know if you got this" but I went straight to the info you sent!
Yes, this was the first place I TRIED contacting you which everyone can see by the posts, you did not respond. So I called you. We met and I saw the salon, which the decor is nice but I am not fond of the equipment or setup! (wasted space and cannot add many beds) When we met we (Jay and I) gave you several #'s that you did not call. Instead you posted here saying I did not respond.
Lets make this easy...plain and simple. You salon IS NOT making a profit and is, in fact, making 50% less gross sales than when you bought it. You asking price would be reasonable IF you could gaurantee me that sales would go back to the $110,000, but obviously you CAN NOT!! Again, I advised my friend Jay that the salon is not worth much and he is still interested!?!? If you are still interested in selling, you can contact Jay directly at 203-465-9191 or 203-509-5070. I am staying out of this...the way I see it is $55,000 gross- $42,000 rent = money out of pocket. Like I have always heard on this site...Why would someone pay $20,000 to get a job that they have to pay to work at???

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I would advise my friend to go with Heartland (and Tan America), Ergoline, Suncapsule, UWE or Mo bay. I have several friends that sell these units used and in excellent shape. We own a truck and 26 ft enclosed trailer so we can pickup ourselves and I know how to install and set up walls so My buddy can be up and running easy and with less money out of pocket than most! My ex-wife owns a salon I set up (and gives my daughter a good life) taht cost about $40,000 out of pocket...she makes probably about $50-60,000 a yr PROFIT!!!
And NO, it would not be a Planet Beach!!

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

And, if you look at my original post, it says to contact me at my phone number or the email address I listed. Of course, we discussed this when we spoke by phone. And, once we talked by phone, I called you probably 3 or 4 times to get a time set up to meet you there. I think that's hardly someone who is dodging communication with you.

How on earth would you expect anyone to guarantee you that sales would be $110,000? Obviously, no one could. I think my asking price is reasonable to someone who has experience in tanning or marketing because:
a. The equipment alone is worth the asking price.
b. The salon has shown sales potential of $100,000 + annually. If it was making $100,000 a year now, then I would be asking much more than what is currently listed.

I don't know the skill level of your friend (or you, for that matter), so I wouldn't even "guarantee" that you would make more than we do. For all I know, you could come in and take over, customers wouldn't like you, and never return.

If your friend Jay would like to talk to me, then have him call me. I currently have half a dozen people that I am talking to about it. I am not in a hurry to sell it, so to speak, but if we're still here next July, then oh well... We make more than enough from our other incomes to subsidize this one until then.

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i don't understand the drama.

If you are interested in buying the salon, you call him you go see the salon....if it's something, you want you put in an offer.

That's all.

It's up to the purchaser now to follow through and call the salon owner with any questions he may have about the salon.

If you don't call him....then the salon owners thinks you're not interested. He's not going to call you and ask you if you want to buy it. Cuz if you did, the offer would have been in his hands.

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To be honest, I don't understand either, Din.

The original buildout cost over $100,000, and the first two years gross was approximately $100,000 each. It did go down since then.

However, I am selling it for only $25,000... actually I will take $20,000 for it. Even it LOSES $1000 a month for the next 6 months, then the buyer only has $26,000 invested going into the busy season. That's hardly a bad deal, in my opinion.

As for the rent, it is higher then I would like, but the new owner could either ride out the assignment on our current lease, or sign a new lease for a lower amount. I explained this to Todd, but he keeps harping on the fact that the lease is high. When I bought the place, I actually had the rent lowered from what it was... I'm sure, in today's economy, that the next owner could negotiate an even lower rate. Of course, any potential owner would have that worked out before they bought it.

I apologize for the drama thread to everyone. I hope everyone has a great week and happy 4th of July next weekend.

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I was interested in helping my friend buy the salon who has no tanning salon experience but plenty of cash to buy it. After looking at it, getting the figures, I told him I don't think it is worth the price. The equipment is Tropical Rayz which I think look cheap and 28 lamp base beds are not something I would keep. Even the upper level beds are not something I like. My buddy says he could afford to put money into the salon and build it up. I think it is best to open in a plaza that has more traffic. The salon decor itself in beautiful but even selling the beds, you wouldn't get much for them...$500 each base bed, $1000 at most for the bigger ones. They are not up to commercial standards unless they went into a gym. (I did installs and have sold many used beds over the years!)
The lease is up in about one year and who knows if the landlord would even renew (still waiting for a copy of the lease). I think Liberty should keep the salon through one busy season and get a little advice on what he could do to drum up as much business as possible (I have offered to help and I am sure he could find alot of advise here). Once the seeason is over and his lease is up, take whatever money he has, sell the equipment and decor, and go on his way.
if my buddy is still interested, they can talk and work things out and I will help my buddy improve it once he owns it. Either way, I would help Liberty or my buddy if they want it!!
No drama, just some miscommunication!! Sorry Liberty, you still have my numbers, call if you need any help with anything!!

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

There you go....TanMan, you've been in the business for so long, you've seen run down places before. Not every salon is like yours. Nor can you expect it to be. But there doesn't need to be drama, the guy is just trying to sell his salon. That's all. Good luck.

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I think it's safe to say...Liberty see things his way, I see things my way. He thinks this price is right, i don't, but it's up to my buddy to decide what he wants to do. (I think it will take more than one busy season to get back to $110,000 and more than $1000 a month ro get to busy season!)
I don't think either of us is right or wrong...I just think he needs to find a buyer that see's things his way and is willing to take a chance that things will get back to where they were.
Again, call Jay if you are still interested in selling it to him. He is in Ct for the next 3 weeks, but will be down the road again soon. Maybe you two can go out riding someday and talk. FL is a great state to own motorcycles...and Jay has 14 of them!!

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Again Din, didn't mean to cause drama...it was a miscommunication. He e-mailed and called and I never got them. I thought he just didn't think my buddy was still interested and didn't bother getting back to us. My buddy asked me to call him, I did and that's when things got figured out. The posts just got carried away...so I will stop now.
Again, Liberty, call if you need anything!

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

There ya go.......that's better.

Glad we can all get along.

Good luck to all involved.

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

~Mod~Please start your own thread.~Mod~

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Kept it during the busy season, but back up for sale now...

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

Even tho this is nearly a 10 year old post, I got a kick out of reading all the back-forth banter

Re: Salon for sale in Lakeland, FL (complete turn key)
 

i am local and interested. Check your PM for my info