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Renting out a building for LAN parties

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latino666

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My main business is a tax prep business from January thru April. Rent at this location is $3,000 a month and all my revenue comes form those months. So in order to save some money I want to rent out the building to a seasonal business or rent it out to clans/gamers that need a place to host their LAN parties. I prefer the second choice because we already have the building networked, we have a GameStop right next door to us, we also have a WalMart just 1 minute away from us, and I like to game myself 😀. So I was wondering how much do you think I could charge people for renting out my building for LAN parties?

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: latino666
My main business is a tax prep business from January thru April. Rent at this location is $3,000 a month and all my revenue comes form those months. So in order to save some money I want to rent out the building to a seasonal business or rent it out to clans that need a place to host their LAN parties. I prefer the second choice because we already have the building networked, we have a GameStop right next door to us, we also have a WalMart just 1 minute away from us, and I like to game myself 😀. So I was wondering how much do you think I could charge people for renting out my building for LAN parties?

Thanks
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Maybe setup a regional tournament. Like a 1 on 1 deathmatch tourney. Getting entire clans to come in is probably not going to happen unless there is a big purse to win. Plus you'd have to a lot of advertising.

If you don't want to do a tournament I doubt that any clans would be interested in paying to get together... Not when they can connect over the net for free or meet in mom's basement.
 
Anything over $10/person will fail. Probably $5/person would be a price that wouldn't deter anyone from coming. Make sure you have a contract signed by everyone stating that you're not liable for any personal injuries, some people are idiots and might try to take advantage of your offer and sue you.
 
have a $1k prize for 1st place $300 for 2nd and so on for top 5, have a couple of sponsers and charge $20 a head for admission, get some models to hand out bawls or some energy drink

you could go all out and make some scratch
 
Looks like tournaments are the way to go. I might just run it like a Monday-Saturday thing. $5 gets you an hour of on-line play + 2 slices of pizza and a pop (soda). I'll see how it goes.
 
Alot of companies will help you sponsor a LAN with loads of freebies & door prizes. Only thing is you've got to be able to show them numbers. The better the numbers the more swag they'll hand over. As far as cost $10 a person is a good start. Most of the LANs I've been too were $20 per seat. But they also had tons of free sodas and enough free subway subs and pizza to choke an elephant.
 
Originally posted by: ryan256
Alot of companies will help you sponsor a LAN with loads of freebies & door prizes. Only thing is you've got to be able to show them numbers. The better the numbers the more swag they'll hand over. As far as cost $10 a person is a good start. Most of the LANs I've been too were $20 per seat. But they also had tons of free sodas and enough free subway subs and pizza to choke an elephant.
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I don't know about Subway but Little Caesars has those $5 pizza things. I usually buy from them anyway when tax season begins. I hand out coupons form my business and theirs and for that I get the pizzas for $3 each.
 
I dunno how big Taylor is but my cousin tried doing something just like this in a fairly small city and it didnt go to well.
 
Originally posted by: redfella
I dunno how big Taylor is but my cousin tried doing something just like this in a fairly small city and it didnt go to well.
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Nice size town, 10-15 minutes from Detroit, and well off people
 
I used to set up lan parties all the time. When we had a high room cost and higher event fees, the turnout was always fairly low. You need a rather large event and loads of people to make it worthwile. When we had smaller events with a very low entry fee, we usually would overflow the place.
 
Originally posted by: latino666
Also what connection should I have? T3 higher or lower?
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IMHO, if you give them too good of a connection they'll spend all their time on ATOT as opposed to actually gaming. 😉
 
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