Today, 50% of U.S. businesses are home-based businesses. That number increases to 60.1% when looking specifically at non-employer firms, or companies that don’t have any employees.

Add the number of employees that work from home and it changes the perception of a home. Buyers are now overwhelmingly looking at how their home can function as a business.

When selling a home, consider how that home will meet the buyer’s needs to operate a business there too.

We bought our property with that in mind and are getting ready to launch our home-based business in our new town Lake Placid, FL.

Our need was to have a property big enough, pretty enough to operate an art studio, hold occasional events, and have amenities already in place for our business.

We found it on Lake Huntley, a 1.2 acre lakefront home with 2 dozen oak trees, dock, and a shed we could convert.

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