Be a big business for small bucks - rent a virtual office

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On this topic: Does anyone have any experience leasing from Regus? We're thinking of using them for (non-virtual) offices and conference rooms in a few areas where we don't have full-time offices (for sales staff, mostly.) Regus/HQ is the biggest company for virtual/executive leased offices, I think, and I've heard some good things about them...and some outright horror stories. I'm not sure what to believe...

I was pretty close to going with them. But they don't tell you their rents up front, and when they do, it's not counting all the random additional fees.

Even when I added them up and found they charged less than the coworking space I was using, I decided not to go with them because it was ambiguous if there were perhaps other fees that I didn't know about.

The "horror stories" I mention mostly involve surprise fees and/or odd contract interpretations.

When I first started on my own I worked from a back-office in my house and this terribly bothered me. I found virtually no limitation or problems with any of my Clients (they actually perceived that I was giving them a bargain with my rates, by not having high overheads). The only problem I found was attracting the right staff (employees like to work in real offices!)

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