I was sitting around the house and started thinking that maybe if I could find an office space for rent then I could get more work done. So I started to Google and craigslist search for cheap office spaces. To my surprise there were office spaces ranging in price from $50 a month to well over $700 a month. The lower priced office spaces were generally the virtual office spaces that have become the new craze of starting entrepreneurs. Many of these virtual offices consist of a live receptionist or a voice recording, a phone number of your choice and a physical address. Now the physical address is not necessarily some place where one can go work for a full day at no additional charge, the addresses are usually used for mail delivery and occasional office space rentals for meetings with future clients. These meetings where the pre-purchased office space is used can range from $20 per hour to well over $50 per hour.
While the virtual office is a great idea and convenient for most entrepreneurs I decided that it would not work for the office of The Shoe Café. Only because I was looking for somewhere that I could setup daily office hours requiring myself to go in for a set number of hours everyday. While performing my search I also came across office spaces that could be rented on a monthly basis. Now this really caught my eye because it was a physical address and the office would not be a shared space. So my two-man crew and I loaded the car and headed to view the potential future office space. When we arrived the building was not too pleasing from the outside but hey it was still worth taking a look at the inside, after all they were only charging $149 monthly. When we got inside of the office the leasing guy did not seem very happy to have potential future occupants interrupting his computer time, but he took us on the tour anyway. The office building was setup like an old abandoned hotel. When we got to the door of the available space I got a little nervous. The door was opened and we looked into what looked like a 100 square foot walk in closet no windows and dimly lit. This would not be the location for the office that I had envisioned. I realized that I would dread going to the office instead of looking at it like an escape route for the daily life dramas. I wanted my office to be my escape route but how could I just escape to a closet?
On the ride home things were a little quieter in the car. This is when I realized that if I could wait about six more months and save what I thought I would spend on the office each month, and then I would be able to afford the type of space that I wanted. I decided that for now since I lived downtown that I would turn the corner with the most windows in my apartment into my office space. This would be where I would find my fashion inspirations by watching the occupants of downtown Orlando move about their daily tasks while I watched from my window or balcony. With working from home I now could pick any location in my apartment where my office would be setup and save money for my one-day soon office space.
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