Renting out a building for LAN parties

[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/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

 

[Accipiter22]

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

4.59 and a fribble from friendly's

 

[j00fek]

charge them what you pay, i dont see anything wrong with that

 

[Mo0o]

Clans wont want to pay.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Clans wont want to pay.

If they can get a sponsor or two, they can charge a small fee at the door, and sell merchandise inside.

 

[redfella]

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.

 

[remagavon]

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.

 

[Ameesh]

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

 

[latino666]

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.

 

[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.

 

[latino666]

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.

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.

 

[her209]

nudie bar/lan party = win!

 

[latino666]

Originally posted by: her209
nudie bar/lan party = win!

Then I need to tint the windows and since this is MI I might need another permit for that. I like your thinking though.:thumbsup:

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

What city is this in?

 

[latino666]

Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius
What city is this in?

Taylor. Any more info and I might get a slap on the wrist from the company again.

 

[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.

 

[latino666]

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.

Nice size town, 10-15 minutes from Detroit, and well off people

 

[Gillbot]

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.

 

[latino666]

Also what connection should I have? T3 higher or lower?

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: latino666
Also what connection should I have? T3 higher or lower?

IMHO, if you give them too good of a connection they'll spend all their time on ATOT as opposed to actually gaming.