i) Location and space
Other than the zoning regulation, you have to consider the location of your house and the space available for your house. If you are intend to start a car repair business, you would need to convert your home garage into a workshop, it will be a concern if your house is with limited space when you have two or three cars waiting for you to repair. The location also play an important role, if you are staying in a small village where there is no proper address indication, and it will also become a consideration point for the customer to send their car to the town even the price is slightly higher.

ii) Neighborhood
Lets take the car repair service as an example again, i am sure there will be knocking and hammering on the car which would generate noisy sound, would this sound bothering your neighbor? Consider this seriously, if they make a complaint to the local authority, your home based business venture might be in problem.

iii) Security and safety
Is dangerous chemical required to be used with the work? Is the tools or equipments are sefely used according to the manual? Is the waste produced affecting the environment? If customer data is to be collected, how to ensure the data is securely kept? All these issued has to be considered.

All these issue must be seriously considered before you start your home based business, you may not want to invest a huge amount of money before you get all these issues cleared and put your business venture in a full stop at the end of the day.

i) Choose a spare room and convert it to home office so that you can properly segregate between your family and business while you are working.

ii) Choose a place where you can totally out of the disturb of noise from your living hall and kitchen.

iii) Choose a place where it is large enough to operate your home business.

iv) If you are choosing a room as your office, try to have a separate door where they can enter directly rather than allow your clients to pass through living hall, kitchen, and bathroom before reaching your office.

v) Choose a place where the noise generated from your business (i.e. car repair) could be completely isolated before reaching your neighbor’s ears.

Try to incorporate these tips into your own home based business and try to utilize it if possible.