BFH> Great to hear you got things orgainzed. I have 
 BFH> other problems in my area,
 BFH> city code doesn't even allow clients to visit on 
 BFH> business, e.g. buying
 BFH> insurance, and coming over to sign papers is 
 BFH> illegal according to code. How
 BFH> is this great nation to have an economic comeback 
 BFH> when industry and hard work
 BFH> is prohibited from home, just to keep the 
 BFH> neighbors happy and the front lawn
 BFH> green? I'd like to hear from others of strange 
 BFH> city codes that make no sense. 
 BFH> Even no noise, business visitors are prohibited, 
 BFH> that is really bad. Another
 BFH> one we got is the residential address may not be 
 BFH> advertised as a business in
 BFH> the Yellow Pages!!!! Got that! They don't even 
 BFH> allow phone calls to come in!!!
We don't have our home addresses listed in the phone book as business 
addresses (neither of us wants to have customers on our front steps at odd 
hours and weekends - my partner has a wife and small daughter to consider, 
and I have Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome from an armed robbery and attempted 
hostage taking).  How we've got around that is to have an office service with 
a downtown address for our mailing address.  Since wwe are licenced as "doing 
business" from there, (it's our business address) that's the address that 
appears in the white pages and yellow pages.  Some customers have dropped 
their payments off there (no problem, all mail and anything left in my name, 
my partners name, or our business name is forwarded to my home address).  If 
customers walk in there asking about services or asking to speak to one of us 
in person, the folk there tell them that we aren't in at the moment, and can 
they get a name and address so we can get back to them?  The office services 
company we use serves a number of businesses, they're very businesslike, and 
considerably cheaper than having a real downtown office.  (Like 100th of the 
price.)  We've used them for years and have been very happy with the results. 
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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