[hackerspaces] Rent?

[Jens]

That is in Kansas... makeict.org


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Jens <a.madman at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are starting the same way you did, dosman, now on our 2nd month of a 6
> month lease at an artist's space.  We pay $250 per month for exclusive use
> of around 400 square feet in a 1200 square foot room.  We can use the rest
> of the room for meetings and workshops, up to 20 hours per month.  Our
> utilities are included.  We do not have "paid" memebership yet and monthly
> costs are covered by 5 board members who donate $50 each month.
>
> We hope at the end of 6 months to have enough people willing to pay for a
> membership to be able to move to our own space.  Perhaps it will take a
> year, though, as it did for dosman's space.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:20 AM, dosman <dosman at packetsniffers.org>wrote:
>
>> Once we started growing and had close to enough people who said they'd be
>> willing to pay dues we sublet a room out of an artists space for $400 a
>> month and no utility costs (120 square feet with access to the rest of the
>> building during our weekly public meetings). After that year we had enough
>> people we rented a 1000 square foot commercial space. Our rent is like $584
>> a month, I think our total monthly expenses are around $700 including rent.
>> Our public liability insurance is $300 a year. Our membership dues of $40 a
>> month from around 20 members usually covers the monthly expenses, a couple
>> of us put in additional cash for utility deposits. Our periodic workshops
>> provide a cushion for when memberships drop a little.
>>
>> We discussed allowing trades of services for memberships, but we decided
>> against this. We have plenty of people who are not members who are regulars
>> at our public meetings which we're totally cool with. But if someone wants
>> full 24x7 access we feel it's reasonable for them to pay the same rate as
>> the rest of us do to keep the lights on. We also support a reduced
>> rate/starving hacker membership, but so far we don't have anyone who uses
>> this. Occasionally we'll get folks who act like $40 a month is too much,
>> but that's why we're open to the public one night a week (and other days
>> when the space is occupied). Don't want to pay? That's cool, just hang out
>> with us on Wednesdays.
>>
>> -dosman
>>
>> On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Derek Hubbard wrote:
>>
>> > That actually brings up a good question. What are people paying per
>> month for rent or expenses? Here at CSpace in Oklahoma City, we're paying
>> $450/mo for 5000sqft of warehouse space with a small kitchen and two
>> bathrooms. The space is, for now, rather raw. We plan on improving that.
>> Our other expenses bring costs up to an estimated $700/mo.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:49 PM, B F <bakmthiscl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You don't say how much you need to cover the rent.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:36 PM, asbesto <asbesto at freaknet.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > We have 1 (one) euro in our bank account right now. We dunno how
>> > > we're going to pay the next month :)
>> > >
>> > > so, NOTHING works here in the center of Sicilia, the deep south
>> > > of our poor Italy...
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > (p.s. someone wanna help us?)
>> > >
>> > > http://museo.freaknet.org/en/donazioni/
>> > >
>> > >
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