Finding a salon space to rent or rent a chair help ?

[gregsaunders]

Hello geeks,

me and one of my colleagues are really unhappy in our current salon, and after trying to resolve things with the salon owner we feel as if we are getting nowhere. neither of us are used to working with no equipment or products (e.g colours arent being ordered, we still dont have a hood dryer after 8 months of nagging and our wages are often late and incorrect). we feel that the salon does not do us as stylists justice and it also means that we feel our clients arent getting the best service we can offer them.

me and my colleague would like to stay working together as we feel we make a good team and share similar views and goals, the job market locally is pretty bare so we have been looking into renting a space or renting chairs within a salon however these are also very thin on the ground and i wanted to know if you have any tips on where to begin to look for rent-a-chair salons or salon spaces to rent as i have become rather stuck in my quest !

if anyone could also impart some advise it would be great to as both of us have only ever been employed and are quite unaware of what renting a chair can involve.

sorry for the massive message lol

Greg x

 

[Ruthlm]

have you tried calling some of the salons in your area to see if they have any chairs/spaces for rent??

You could also contact an organisiation such as business gateway ( not sure if they are scotish based ) or an organisation like this as they can offer you advice on becoming self employed. Also why not google comercial properties for rent in yuor area, this can give you an idea of costings involved in renting your own shop, as opposed to renting a space that has everything such as electricity, telephone, rates etc included. Basically best thing to do is call around, research the internet to gather as much information as you can so you can compare and from there decide if it woud be something that you would be able to do, you would have to factor in advertising to your costs as well, to let people know where you were etc, good luck, hope things work out for you both!! x