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Experience needed
My wife and I tried to start a business within the last year and found that the start up costs are a lot more than we thought. I got to meet a city manager to see if we could take over an old school building and met with a commercial owner for another property but in both cases the money needed was too high and we were and are too inexperienced to know what to do. The meetings were fun and I couldn't believe I could get meetings like this.
So now I would like to start smaller to build up equity, experience and tax advantages.