Anyone own a roller rink?

[Page Huyette]

My spouse and I have been bouncing this idea around for awhile. There's a local supermarket in town that is vacant--right smack near downtown, high school and the college.

Wondering what it might take to get it up and running as a roller rink. Without getting into the structural aspects of the building, I'd love insight from anyone who owns something like this. Let your imagination fly!

[Karen Margrave]

Page Huyette and Robyn Roberts I'm sure you can find some information online that shows how to do the analysis, etc. I too am always thinking of different business ventures, other than real estate. I have a modern farm style 4500 sq. ft. house with 2100 sq. ft. guest house, large pool, seasonal pond on 20 acres in Redding. I've often considered a Country Inn with wedding venue, or a host of other things (craft weekends, fitness, small retreats, or ?) At Christmas we used to do elaborate decorating and had around 20,000 people that would come by. We had a live Santa that people could take pix with etc. I'm sure I could have done it for a business, with crafts, selling Xmas trees, baked goods, etc. But... we just did it for the fun of it and didn't charge.

I think women are much more creative on finding ways to use real estate to create income streams other than the obvious, but those are business ventures, not actually real estate investing. Mine idea in fact is more of a lifestyle business.