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I want to start a business in rented home

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Appleholic · 18/10/2022 07:27

AIBU? I looked at my rental agreement on my home and it said I cannot run a business from my home as it is residential. So I write to my landlord asking permission if I can run a craft business from home he says no way would break my tenancy agreement. He said I cannot trade from my home premises, I said what if I provide a service in people's homes eg cleaning, or nails etc he said fine as long as not trading from home. Because trading from my home affects shared building insurance and the lease is residential only.

How could I run a craft business still? Without breaching my tenancy.

Would it be reasonable to pay for a virtual office address and mail Po box service?

Does the rule mean I can't register my home address for hmrc even if I found somewhere else?? ( rent a room) for my crafting.

It's very stressful and confusing. Anybody with legal knowledge or business experience that can come up with solutions pls.

OP posts:
Sugarplumfairy65 · 25/10/2022 21:27

Appleholic · 22/10/2022 07:11

Sugarplumfairy

Thats interesting advice to know about candles etc.
Do you run a craft business from rented o

We own our home outright and have built a large workshop at the bottom of the driveway so the business is totally separate from the house. We use a specialist broker for the business. We did try to rent premises but because I'm in a wheelchair it was impossible to find something that worked for us, plus it means I can work whenever I like. If I cant sleep at night I can just go to work.

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