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Sorry. I did do a search on starting a business and traspaso, but I have trouble accessing archived threads, and the majority of the ones I find seem to be from 2003.

Victor and I have a contract on the house. Closing in July, probably heading to Madrid in August to find an apartment and wait for our stuff to arrive. I know - August, but what are you going to do?

So lately, Victor's thinking about opening a bar. We're both unenthusiastic about the whole interviewing, jobsearch thing again, and we'll have some initial capital from the sale of our house. He's got several friends who run bars/bodegas that we can look to for advice and instruction. But I was wondering about getting an update from multi-madriders who have already launched their businesses.

Ideally, we'd like it to be a woody, clubby place with wifi and maybe a bar sized-pool table in back, maybe some squishy, comfy chairs in front along with the bar and tables. We have experience renovating if necessary.

We know we have a lot of research ahead of us. Victor is, of course, Spanish and I have European Union status so hopefully that should simplify the legal/administrative side. Guess we'll have to do a lot of "in the field" investigating when we get there. brews

Anyway - really looking forward to meeting some of you at trivia, volleyball, etc.

Hasta la vista!

Coco
 
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how fun!!! i worked 15 years in the bar biz in the states and miss it so much! i WISH i had the capital to start something here.....you'd be amazed at how many poorly run places abound...every week i walk in someplace and w/in 10 minutes can spot half a dozen ways the place could be making more money!

anyway, as far as i know the resident experts on businesses and traspasos are chica and jamie....chica started a school www.iberenglish.com and jamie has www.jandjbooksandcoffee.com which includes a bar.

both of our lovely mm entrepreneurs recently had babies so i think their time on the board is limited, you might want to track them down personally.

good luck!!!!!!!!

candy
 
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