reptile shop.........

[lesvegas]

Originally Posted by tom1400

well if you go through threads there have been a few people asking about owning pet shops. For starters even for a small shop you need about £100,000 loan to get your shop up and running. Then you have to pay your staff, buy foood for animals, get supplies, electrictiy bills it all adds up at the end of the day. I'm 16 and all i'm going to do is when i get a house convert a loft or a bedroom into a reptile room and make a website and just advertised like that. So much cheaper

Absolute Rubbish that mate, im sorry but 100k is a joke, you can do it for a tenth of that or lesss

depends on how big you want to go,

someone on here was saying the other day that it had cost his mate 7k and it was a success

[tom1400]

my bad i got it from another post sayng you will need a 100k loan. 10k ain't bad might thnink about doing that when i'm older

[lesvegas]

I know mate because im opening one on about 7k, that will stock a small shop with around 30 animlas and 30 vivs

If youre rent is reasonable which mine is then you can do it on a budget but you will need to start making enough money to cover you bills in the first 3 or 4 months

[MissHayho]

thank everyone for your responses - i do understand the costs are going to be steep with some things but if i do consider doing this in the future i wouldnt open it alone - and id make sure that i had everything sorted before even considering involving animals!