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I'm trying to look for a bank or credit union that I can run all of my business related transactions through. Getting the startup money, materials, and location has already been accounted for, I just need a bank with which I can streamline my stuff easily.

Said business will be out of southwestern Houston metro area, if it helps.
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You'll be in Sugarland?
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Rob Cesternino posted...

You'll be in Sugarland?

Yeah. I'm going to be doing specialty machining.
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I'm planning on doing something similar in about a year but luckily it takes next to no start up. I currently tutor, starting next month I'm getting 25 7th grade students to tutor for 90 minutes once per week. Charging just over 35,000 baht per month (just over $1,000usd). If it goes well like it should, between word of mouth and the family friend who hooked us up with this, I can likely end up with over 100 students (would only do 25 max per class).

The wife and I figure we can rent a class room for around $6/hour. Though if we can get 100 students we might just rent a place for the entire month. She can run the books as she already does it for her grandmas restaurant. This city only has one other tutoring school that we know of with actual native English speaking teachers and they charge way more (we plan to charge 1,500 baht/student, they charge 2,400). So should have access to a fairly large market.

I've never had my own business so it would be really cool to attempt at least once. Plus there is virtually no risk so might as well do it. My wife knows a Thai English teacher making over $4,000/month doing this and her English isn't even good.
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