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The property is about five acres with four buildings. One of them would be perfect for an eleven thousand square foot indoor pistol range. I've got a gunsmith who wants to lease part of the space on the second floor over the pistol range.
One of the other buildings is forty-eight thousand square feet in three stories, and is already pretty well laid out for classrooms, conference and lecture halls, and overnight lodging.
Here are the problems. I'll need half a million dollars within two months to get started, and a little over two million over the next year or so to finish up renovation and construction. Three of the four buildings are on land that is subject to a lease which has been terminated by the landlord, but the lessees are threatening litigation.
The litigation doesn't bother me much, but I haven't done anything about registration of securities so as to make potential investors stockholders/members/partners - can't even issue promissory notes without registration.
I see this being a major facility for people with training credentials to be able to conduct courses and seminars. The sort of place where nice folks who know nothing about self defense could be treated respectfully and professionally and taught whatever they need to know about home security, martial arts, firearms, etc. I also see it as a place where federal agencies and law enforcement agencies could conduct training with contractors. My focus is on providing the facilities and ensuring the overall character be sufficiently professional that any 9 to 5 office worker from Arlington, Alexandria, or Fairfax could go, not knowing anything, and not feel like she's in some good'ol boy's garage, that the military/tactical/police orientation is too intimidating, or that her feelings about defense of self and others are in any way misplaced. No one should be made to feel stupid, just because they're ignorant, and no one is too disabled to learn something about self defense.
Any suggestions?
The property is about five acres with four buildings. One of them would be perfect for an eleven thousand square foot indoor pistol range. I've got a gunsmith who wants to lease part of the space on the second floor over the pistol range.
One of the other buildings is forty-eight thousand square feet in three stories, and is already pretty well laid out for classrooms, conference and lecture halls, and overnight lodging.
Here are the problems. I'll need half a million dollars within two months to get started, and a little over two million over the next year or so to finish up renovation and construction. Three of the four buildings are on land that is subject to a lease which has been terminated by the landlord, but the lessees are threatening litigation.
The litigation doesn't bother me much, but I haven't done anything about registration of securities so as to make potential investors stockholders/members/partners - can't even issue promissory notes without registration.
I see this being a major facility for people with training credentials to be able to conduct courses and seminars. The sort of place where nice folks who know nothing about self defense could be treated respectfully and professionally and taught whatever they need to know about home security, martial arts, firearms, etc. I also see it as a place where federal agencies and law enforcement agencies could conduct training with contractors. My focus is on providing the facilities and ensuring the overall character be sufficiently professional that any 9 to 5 office worker from Arlington, Alexandria, or Fairfax could go, not knowing anything, and not feel like she's in some good'ol boy's garage, that the military/tactical/police orientation is too intimidating, or that her feelings about defense of self and others are in any way misplaced. No one should be made to feel stupid, just because they're ignorant, and no one is too disabled to learn something about self defense.
Any suggestions?
