work from home or rent an office?
menloparkbum: Where do you live? In SF there is a new art space where you can rent an office space that would fit 3 people for $450/m.
It's pretty small, though. I'm talking 3 people at the same big dinner table.I like having somewhere else to work but I don't really like traditional office space. The best spaces I've worked at were a huge loft style apartment and an old house. Thus I'd suggest a shared apartment, BUT:One thing about office space vs. apartment space is that office space is usually much more negotiable than apartment space. You can probably talk away the $6K advance and lower the price. Aside from the times during boom economies and maybe always on the island of Manhattan, office landlords are often borderline desperate.On the other side of the coin, if you're looking at living spaces and suggest to the landlord you're planning on using the apartment for an office, they probably won't rent it to you. So don't mention it.Another thing you can do is sublease a corner of a space where another company got stuck in an overpriced lease last year.