Yes they are, it is one of those I want, but they are 3 times the price. It's on the wish list along with many other things.
Fragile business alright. Very political and full of backstabbing and bullshit!
I was teaching at a club with other instructors in the '90s under an association when a heap of the students convinced me I should teach them outside the club as the association goverened what could be taught and I wanted to teach things they didnt approve of (in other words other styles and not so traditional)... Anyway, I started out teaching after hours in my backyard as it was summer, then in winter it moved into my garage.
After a while other people wanted to join in training so I rented out a scout hall a couple times a week and started charging training fees, started advertising and making a go of it. We trained at this location for many years. I had guest instructors come in and teach sessions, for example a guy I knew who ws a Golden Gloves boxing champ came in for some boxing coaching etc. Other style coaches as well. BJJ, Muay Thai, you get the idea.
The club grew to a size where I had to put on more training nights and find an even bigger location. I did a lot of research and decided to buy land and build a dedicated location. For some time I was running two training locations out of the scout hall and the newly built location, however I ended out killing off the scout hall to focus all efforts onto the place I had built.
It was going well, covering costs enough that I put on a staff member, a guy who had a world title and pretty much every national title you could think of and was very well known here in Australia. I thought this would be a great business growth as he travelled from out of town to teach, so I didnt consider him a threat, I covered his travelling costs plus paid cash for his teaching time. I got many new students just by advertising his name.
Long story short, I had the local govt trying to shut me down (which they did) for building codes that they decided to enforce years later even though when I sat with them before the place was even built they told me I didnt have to worry about them. I just didnt have it in writing. The local Govt wanted me to tear down the building, have the 4" slab demolished and an industrial slab poured. Total cost would have been nearly 100k, and for a business that was not massively wealthy hard that wasnt going to happen. Then the guy whom I trusted screwed me over, stole all my students, opened up his own gym in this city which is now very successful.
After that I had to run it not as a business but a cash in hand "hobby", couldn't advertise, couldnt continue with the retail side of things I had been setting up, or i'd be in legal trouble.
I still had my die hard students which I decided to keep teaching till they eventually dropped off which lasted a couple years until there was only a couple and I said to them "thats it"... I just gave up and I'm still paying the mortgage etc years later. It was then I quit a Martial Arts career that spanned about 25 years training.
Gave me more spare time for things like building guitars which I never had time for, and here I am!