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Well, I don`t know how much help the info I have gotten will help you since the ordinances are different in each location. I am in Yukon Oklahoma and there is no ordinance about operating a business from home, but there are some that deal with localized traffic, quantity delivery, noise, and (in my business) smells...laser engraving on different materials give off different odors. Anyway, for me to do this I have to have an outside delivery location. I checked with the local UPS store that just opened up down the road and I was told by them that it is o.k. to use their address since all business mail is going to be delivered there. I am still checking on it, since the guy telling me this was only about 18 or 19 and kind of talked like he was trying to make a commission. I am waiting until I can get the time to go back and discuss it with a manager or get on line and check it out further.

Hi, Engraver,

My city ordinances have the similar restrictions on home occupation businesses, and then some. If I want to avoid all these restrictions, I can either move to or have my name listed in an address within an unincorporated city, which there is little or no restrictions on home occupation businesses. My third option would be to rent a “private mailbox” for the shortest rental term being offered and go through the process of filing for a business permit to see if my city official would actually checking in on my “business address” before approving my application.

Before I found out about Startupnation.com, I used to, and still do, read articles from Entrepreneur.com on eBay businesses. There is one article that talks about how a lady from Long Beach, California, who wishes to sell psychic reading sessions from home over the Internet, gets turned down for a business permit due to the foreseeable customer traffic, and eventually gets her permit. Here’s the article: http://www.Entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,285818,00.html

And the questions I posted at the very beginning of this topic came from this article: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,322983,00.html

Before I give the suggestions or options I gathered a try, I will seek the help of a business attorney from my city.

<>Steve.

Yeah I am about to check with a local attorney here in a few weeks. Good luck with the startup.