Home-based Businesses

ROL NFIB The Voice of Small Business. NFIB.com/homebizfacts Home Alone Home Turf While home-based businesses are increasingly common, they're also somewhat isolated from other businesses that operate the same way. Home-based business owners usually don't have the option to poke their heads into others' home offices to see how they run. In a recent survey, NFIB pulled back the 22 The percentage of employing businesses that are principally located in a home. home-based business curtain to see how owners structure their businesses and set up their offices. We talked to home-based business owners Write-Off who employ at least one other person to find out how they handle their physical space, customer visits and more. Here's some of what ONLY 46% 250 we learned. Soro NB Renarch Foundaton. Bares Actvy in the Hone, 2008 Spaced Out of home business owners take the portion of their home used for business as a tax deduction, often because the deduction is too complicated to make it worthwhile. Off Limits SQUARE FEET The median amount of space a home-based business occupies is about the size of a large bedroom. Three out of four home-based business owners do not have customers or vendors visit them routinely.