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Quick question for anyone with or had a unit:
What sort of running costs are there or isit all in?
I'm looking at one with 1500 sqft big I know but theres hardly any around me that accept car work "/ to be carried out.
Anything I should look out for or tips or anything let me know please?
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Really depends where inthe country you are. In outer london a tiny single garage could be £40-£120/month and out in the middle of nowhere a massive unit that would hold 9 cars is £250 odd (like Zakk and Matt have)
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The one I was looking at is 460 a month, I don't know if that's all in, there's a service charge as well of 1200 a year but it seems to be a decent size... Going to ring him tomorrow to book a appointment to view 
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That's money that could buy a house... With a garage...
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Got a garage "/ not big enough....
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Get a break clause at 6 months, speak to others locally to find out what they pay.
£460 should get you a pretty big place. Is that plus vat, services and business rates?
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Friend rents a 8m x 4m converted barn unit at £200 a month near castle combe. Worth chatting to farmers as they often have this kind of stuff.
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In total it will be around 680 a month with vat added and service charge there is no business rates... not sure about electric and water though...
not sure if this will work
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Wow thats a fair size!
Didnt realise you were only just down the valley, im often down abergavenny and always end up at tiffins in Cwmbran for an all you can eat indian 
With regards too the unit i would get it in your name and then maybe sub let a bit of space out to mates / charge them storage for cars which is what i do soon brings the price down considerably
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f*ck me 700 month? Gotta be able to buy a mansion for that in Wales! thats crazy money for a unit. Can think of a lot I'd rather do with that...
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5.5k a year before vat?!
make your current garagr bigger/get rid of crap/move somewhere with a bigger garage!
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(01-07-2015, 03:53 PM)Matt-Rallye Wrote: Wow thats a fair size!
Didnt realise you were only just down the valley, im often down abergavenny and always end up at tiffins in Cwmbran for an all you can eat indian
With regards too the unit i would get it in your name and then maybe sub let a bit of space out to mates / charge them storage for cars which is what i do soon brings the price down considerably
Oi what you doing in my town lol
Look for something in cwmbran/pontypool dirt cheap down here
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Yeah I know "/ having 2nd thoughts now seems alot but would be going in half's with my dad but still even then it's a lot.... Think I may just keep an eye out for somthing smaller, at most it will be around 5 cars. It's just every company I have rang and spoke to around here don't allow car activities.
Thanks for the advice and that anyway
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As said already, that is insane money. You'd need to be running a decent business from there to make those numbers work.
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I'm tempted to get a unit, buy a load of shagged gym equipment (mostly free weights), put a counter and till in and open a sand/sawdust style gym.
Have a car outside of it for sale constantly, charge £25 a month for unlimited use.
Can't cost that much right?
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Trent, are you actually that guy from lock stock?
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(02-07-2015, 01:05 PM)Poodle Wrote: Trent, are you actually that guy from lock stock?
Dunno never watched it.
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(02-07-2015, 01:05 PM)Poodle Wrote: Trent, are you actually that guy from lock stock?
Surely you mean snatch?
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How have you never seen lock stock!?!?!?!?!?!?
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(02-07-2015, 06:56 PM)Dum-Dum Wrote: How have you never seen lock stock!?!?!?!?!?!?
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(02-07-2015, 10:12 AM)silverzx Wrote: I'm tempted to get a unit, buy a load of shagged gym equipment (mostly free weights), put a counter and till in and open a sand/sawdust style gym.
Have a car outside of it for sale constantly, charge £25 a month for unlimited use.
Can't cost that much right?
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I had that thought as well.
There's a guy in my town who admittedly has always been into powerlifting etc. who set up his own gym with mostly 2nd hand equipment that he bought all in one go, I think at an auction or something from another gym that went bankrupt and is now doing extremely well for himself.
This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted above as fact.
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(02-07-2015, 01:08 PM)Matt-Rallye Wrote: (02-07-2015, 01:05 PM)Poodle Wrote: Trent, are you actually that guy from lock stock?
Surely you mean snatch?
Hahahah touche, sir!
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(01-07-2015, 05:15 PM)C2K Wrote: f*ck me 700 month? Gotta be able to buy a mansion for that in Wales! thats crazy money for a unit. Can think of a lot I'd rather do with that...
£700 a month is more than I pay for rent and bills in a reasonably expensive part of the UK, plus I'd still have enough spare for diesel as well. And I have unlimited free parking...  Seriously though, never expected a warehouse to cost that much! 
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(02-07-2015, 01:08 PM)Matt-Rallye Wrote: (02-07-2015, 01:05 PM)Poodle Wrote: Trent, are you actually that guy from lock stock?
Surely you mean snatch?
This
(02-07-2015, 06:56 PM)Dum-Dum Wrote: How have you never seen lock stock!?!?!?!?!?!?
and 100% this. Its just one of them films you have to watch in your life time!!!
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I haven't got time to sit and commit 2 hours of my life to a film that I probably won't enjoy.
Man got business to tend to. 
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(09-07-2015, 07:54 AM)silverzx Wrote: I haven't got time to sit and commit 2 hours of my life to a film that I probably won't enjoy.
Man got business to tend to.
Bullshit. man up and commit.
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