Anyone with experience renting/purchasing a property used for a preschool?
Looking to start a preschool in California and need a location, any tips on where to start or what work best for one?
[{"id": "hue782f", "text": "A lot of landlords won\u2019t lease to preschools - if anything ever happened to a child the lawyers are coming after the landlord especially if it\u2019s a non-credit tenant (and I assume you aren\u2019t bright horizons). \n\nI have no idea what makes for a good pre school location or a bad one, but do know that you might find it challenging to lease space. You should probably hire a tenant rep broker to help you through it, it won\u2019t cost you anything.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hue8kak", "text": "California is a big place. I did site selection for a day care, they were looking for 80k median household income and 3k children under 3 in a 5 mile radius. This was a credit tenant with a large number of existing locations. Playground and parking were also issues.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hue9blm", "text": "Do you know what the requirements are for a preschool facility? Because that\u2019s going to filter out a lot of places.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "huekrkc", "text": "I've seen a lot of single tenant office space converted to preschool use.\n\nA broker with access to CoStar can I'd area with median income that is desirable and high number of households OR employment centers.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hvjcsul", "text": "I know a specialist in PreSchool brokerage in CA.  Email me at [dave@thekasegroup.com](mailto:dave@thekasegroup.com) and I'll point you in the right direction.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]