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I used to think paying for a Detroit business license expediter was a waste, then I lost $850 doing it myself
I want to warn every new owner in this group about the money I lit on fire trying to handle my own licensing last spring. I opened a small screen printing shop off Michigan Ave in southwest Detroit and figured I could save a few hundred bucks by filing everything myself instead of hiring an expediter. Big mistake. I filled out the state forms wrong twice and each rejection ate two weeks, so my space sat empty while I kept paying $1,100 a month in rent. Then I missed a BSEED inspection window because nobody told me about the $175 re-inspection fee, and I paid that twice. By the time I got my certificate of occupancy I was out $850 more than an expediter would have charged me, plus almost two months of dead time. The guy who finally fixed my paperwork, Sam over on Livernois, said he sees this every week with first timers. If you are about to file your own, do you know all the city and state steps, or are you guessing like I was?
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