Renting cost !!!

[showson]

Hi Geeks


i have been offered a position as a nail tech in a hairdressors and i am going to see the lady tomorrow to discuss things. I do work for myself at the moment mobile but things are quite (only been doing it six months), even though i do have a few regulars thought it might be an opportunity to help get me going and a bigger client base. The owner of the salon says that i can work for myself and please myself when i work so i can still fit in my mobile as well.

Just wondered ( as i am fairly new to the industry) what is the going rate for paying for this. I know that this will vary up and down the country, i live in doncaster. I dont want to go and see her then if i decided to do it pay over the odds as i am not sure what i should pay.:suprised:

 

[showson]

Please any one!!!

Just after a rough estimate, as i dont want to be paying over the odds
:biggrin:

 

[new2this]

I was offered a space in a sun bed shop last year and they wanted £70 a week for it which i thought was a bit high. i know some places work on a percentage basis as well. I would try and get a cheap rent for maybe 4 weeks to give to a chance to build up a client base. Good luck.

 

[Beautific]

Hi I will be renting a room in a hairdressers from June this year and the weekly rent is £90 hth x

 

[Elegance Nail Tech]

Hi there,
Ive just been offered a chair in a hair salon doing Nails at a charge of £25 per day. I worked on a percentage rate for someone once but then I didnt want to take my existing clients to the salon for the owner to reap the benefits and take 20% ....so to me, rent seems better.
Haley x

 

[melons]

I pay £50 a week for my space in a small hairdressers, I don't have a room and I give them 20% of my takings as well.
It isn't a fortune but as I am starting out so am not exactly racking it in.
I am probably going to re negotiate. I am doing alot of promos and am bringing people in to them so i shall see what happens????

 

[Katkins]

Hi,
I don't know if this will help, but I had the same issue couple of months ago and I agreed on 35% for the salon owner and 65% for me.
Good luck

 

[sophie..]

hiya, i pay £20 per day in a salon, but for the first 3months was paying 10%

 

[showson]

i have been and they want £150.00 per week, no matter how many days i work and if i go in or not.

not sure if this is to much, what do you other experience geeks think

thank you

 

[Cathie!]

I pay £50 per week in an out of town hair salon. I would expect to pay more if I were in the city centre and could charge higher prices for my services.

It really is a difficult question as there are so many variables across the country.

Do they have a customer base that you could tap into or is it the blue rinse brigade?

Is the salon on a high street where you could capture walk by interest.

Will they be advertising?

Will they be taking appointments, making tea/coffee etc?

If you do a search for renting a space it will bring up loads of interesting threads to help you along. :hug:

 

[Flesh_and_Bone]

i have been and they want £150.00 per week, no matter how many days i work and if i go in or not.

not sure if this is to much, what do you other experience geeks think

thank you

Well, I don't know if Wakefield is too far for you (I see you're in Doncaster) but we have a nail desk available to rent soon and it's MILES less than £150 per week. PM me if you (or anyone else) are interested.

 

[showson]

lol no its not a blue rinse brigade.

It a new salon that will be opening at the end of the month, so there is no established client base, they will book clients in for you or if you have a client base they want you to take that with you ( of which i dont really have one). They have not done any advertising yet but will advertise for you and take bookings on your behalf. Its doncaster town centre but on the outer edge of the centre, so will be alittle bit of passing trade.:!:

 

[Cathie!]

If it were me, I would be thinking, I've got no client base, the salon is new, I'm likely to be out of pocket before I even get started.

You'd need to be doing at least 7 rebalances (depending on your pricing) per week before you made a penny and with no clients, that's a steep one.

Could you try and negotiate a lower rent or a % for an initial period while the salon starts to establish itself?

 

[persianista]

I normally come down on the side of the salon owner, but 150 is steep in a new salon, with no clients. You pay that kind of money in a big, busy salon that has existing clients chomping at the bit for you.

 

[karenb]

Hi I am in doncaster as well, i have not qualified yet but this is somthing I checked out before i started to train. I was told anything over £100.00 is too much ! x

 

[lisa-marie]

i looked at renting a room in a new hairdressers in my village a few months ago, she wanted £50 per week for the room (plus pay my share of the business rates)

 

[persianista]

Renting a room and renting a table are 2 diferent things. I would charge 150 a week for a room, but around 80 a week for a table. I would never do a % split because of the vat issue.

 

[showson]

i agree been thinking about it and i would have to do hell of alot of nails week to just pay my rent, then there is the costs of my products on top.

I have been doing mobile so do have a few reg clients but they have me as i can fit into there work pattern etc so dont think that they would follow me. I find mobile very hard work (which dont get me wrong i will put in all the hard work that is need to get reg clients and to make it in the nail world.) but you get one booking for say 9in the morning then your next booking isnt till say 1 so you do one then you are waiting around to go to the next one where as if you are in a shop you would prob get appointment after appointment so you are no waiting around or if no one is booked in you might get someone passing that just pops in on the off chance.

Any one else got any space to rent in the doncaster area?.

Or the other thought that i has was to try and push to have people to come to me and have a home based salon, but are these popular with the public?

 

[lilylou21]

Hi I know that we are in totally different parts of the country but £150 a week is a lot of money to rent a table. I paid that for a whole room with two small treatment spaces within it and my own kitchen. It was a salon that had been established for 10 years and I still couldn't make it work. I advertised all the time but it was never enough. Im mobile now and its the best thing I could of done. I too am trying to convert my spare room into a salon room.

Good Luck whaterver you decide

 

[Unique Nails09]

My word this is opening my eyes up a bit! I started renting a desk in a friends hair salon and she charges me £30 a day, this seemed okay at first as i expected to have loads of customers flocking in along side my existing customers which i brought with me, but there have been so many restrictions put on me by her i,e No posters allowed in window, having to use her logo and the same printing company for all my paper advertising (which her boyfriend sorts out) Not permitted to use my usual monomer (too smelly) so having to use odour free (not good). Also i am expected to chip in and tidy the salon (brush away hair on floor wash out colour bowls fold foils etc)

Basically business is slow and on a usual day i make about £80, of which i give her £30, then out of that i have to work out things such as products costs, advertising, business insurance and NI. Needless to say i'm not making any profit for myself!!!!!

Is this too high? Whats the best way to approach asking her for a lower rent charge?
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