A Question On Leased (Shared) Space

[Phoebe Vet]

wallyworld

 I live in NC, right on the SC border and now plan to attend now that I know about it. Up in the metropolitan Charlotte area, North of my location, it is a comparative "dead zone" for the hobby as far as i know,

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MetrolinaModelRailroaders/ 

http://www.pandw.org/ 

 

[vsmith]

We did something like this back in college, but it was as a studio space to do our projects. It lasted for about the lenth of the school year but it was very iffy at best. Your lease income is ONLY as good as the group of people who sign onto it. Part of the problem we found was that some people are more reliable than others when it came to coughing up the monthly rent. Another issue was that as the year rolled on, some student who didnt do so hot and had to wait a year to continue suddenly had no reason to continue paying rent and bailed leaving the remainder of the rent to be made up by the remaining participants, by the end of the year only about 1/2 the original participants remained, and were none too happy about their share of the rent increasing 50% over the year. Needless to say it didnt happen again the following year.

A group lease for trains is going to have similar issues, the lease is only going to be a solid as the commitment you can get from the other partipants, payment can get tricky is someone loses interest or a job or illness that could force them to drop out, leaving the others with their portion of the lease to split up. So while you can do it, I'd make sure you have some pretty solid agreements prior to commiting to it.

[rtraincollector]

there is one hobby shop in west Columbia I think but I haven't been there either lol been staying to busy working but there saying ot is ending so that means now I won't have the $$ to do anything lol one thing or another is how it always goes.

[wallyworld]

rtraincollector

This isn't what you mean I think but the model railroad club I was a member of in VA. Did 3 different layouts they did G, O, and Ho all inside layouts in the building there leasing also heres a link to a model railroad club here in S.C. that I need to go check out some Thursday night.

http://www.amroc.org/#shows

they do n scale, HO scale, S scale and O gauge

But where a bunch more or less leased a section of the building not sure I would be up for that. a few drop out and then you either have to make up the difference or move out yourself. even if the completed there lease say for a year  it still could happen now if you go in as a club then you know as a club the club has to come up with X amount each month.

Thanks for the response as coincidentally I live in NC, right on the SC border and now plan to attend now that I know about it. Up in the metropolitan Charlotte area, North of my location, it is a comparative "dead zone" for the hobby as far as i know, having come from Chicago about a decade ago..My question was out of curiosity as to whether this "shared space" was ever tried, as my concerns would be the same as yours. This economy is another downside, of course. .Even a non for profit toy train museum concept seems shaky...

[rtraincollector]

This isn't what you mean I think but the model railroad club I was a member of in VA. Did 3 different layouts they did G, O, and Ho all inside layouts in the building there leasing also heres a link to a model railroad club here in S.C. that I need to go check out some Thursday night.

http://www.amroc.org/#shows

they do n scale, HO scale, S scale and O gauge

But where a bunch more or less leased a section of the building not sure I would be up for that. a few drop out and then you either have to make up the difference or move out yourself. even if the completed there lease say for a year  it still could happen now if you go in as a club then you know as a club the club has to come up with X amount each month.

[wallyworld]

The first question is a rented commercial space for a layout. These are typically leased by a club that has one very large communal layout. My question is: Are there any arrangements where a group of individuals did the same leasing arrangement, but...each builds their own layout..in a common space. Seems like mutual help would be handy..variety ( differing gauges?) etc. Has this been done anywhere?