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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1481842, member: 37498&quot;]I live in a small city of just under 40,000.&nbsp; We have quite a few pawn shops and one coin store and I know a guy who is seriously thinking of starting another.&nbsp; He does enough business buying and selling on craigslist and to people he&#039;s established relationships with that I think Bozeman can support two coin stores.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t hurt that his parents own a few coin stores in two states that charge sales tax.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose much would depend on how wealthy your community is and if they like to buy and sell coins.&nbsp; It seems people here in Bozeman are wealthy enough and do like buying coins, so &lt;40,000 people should be enough to support two coin shops.&nbsp; It could be that your community of 80,000 might too, but you&#039;d have a better idea of that than I would.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as getting a loan goes, I&#039;m the kind of person that likes to keep debt to a minimum, but there are also advantages to leveraging your business using someone else&#039;s money.&nbsp; It helps you realize much better profits when times are good.&nbsp; However, you will also see much larger losses when times are not good.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you have a college nearby that offers business degrees?&nbsp; If so, you might be able to tap into it for advice.&nbsp; Our university is always looking for local businesses for the students to work with to satisfy their degree requirements.&nbsp; They could help you write a business plan, brainstorm to identify all the fixed and variable costs that you&#039;d encounter, calculate all the various financial ratios for a few different approaches, design a web site for you, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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