I was caught up in a similar venture 4 years back with a marine aquarium shop. The money man was a client from the past, and he said that if I designed the shop and helped him run it, that he would give me one third of it and one third of the profits. I put at least 3000 hours into that shop in the first year and a half, and only 450 dollars in my pocket. There was always something that happened to take away from profits. You don't make a lot of money in the pet store business. You could make much more working at a shop and doing maintenance on peoples fish tanks. Trust me, I made 50 a visit minimum for all 20 of my maintenance accounts and more on an average day there then 18 months at the shop.



Keep this thing a hobby and work for heron the side. Your best bet is to work for her for store credit only on the condition that she sells everything to you at cost. This way you can build up your own stuff and save a ton of money in the long run. I had this deal at a shop before I moved and now I have enough equipment as I could use in a year. Have fun with it, there has to be a reason she is offering this to you. If she thought she could make money off of this, she would be doing it herself.
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