As well as what venue will moderate if there is a disagreement. i.e. if you agree to mediation then they can't sue until they go that route first.

The venue has wifi for our convenience.

I can look around and get a venue.

Marketing properties and knowing when is too soon and too late to market and the venues is another reason to use a PM.With this all said, we recommend to manage yourself for the first property with a mentor.

Now we build in a design fee on higher end properties, because it's hard and a skilled designer will actually save us time and money and aggravation.I used to think that wedding planning was a total BS job until I ran my own wedding and spent I don't know how many hundred hours making phone calls to vendors, researching venues, lining up bands, making hotel arrangements, figuring out table arrangements, figuring out how many staff to hire, picking out silverware, and trying to figure out where to put the tables and chairs.

Meaning that they don't want to show their faces at any venue populated by persons that shop for mortgages for a living, but they're aaaaallll about being in front of the noobs. 

A colleague and myself are looking to open a large (4 or more ballrooms) event venue which can be booked for memorable receptions, corporate events, conventions, ect.

An amount that seems like a large financial gain for him (but a sad personal loss).If you are talking a Fitness Gym type establishment, that would be a business valuation.If it's a business and not a Venue, you might want to seek out a CPA Firm that does business valuations that can help with these kinds of things.Good Luck!

I have a business on my homestead, wedding venue.

In the last year they built a concert venue downtown that is drawing attention.