25 REASONS NOT TO OPEN YOUR OWN STUDIO:
1. Freelance engineers. They always complain about your choice of gear, especially speakers. They also point out what's broken on a regular basis. damn.
2. Toilets. You have to clean them unless you get an intern and then you feel bad asking them to do that.
3. Interns. They're not so bad, when you get one and they work out well, but you'll get calls from people wanting to be one every frickin' day.
4. Taxes. I pay more in taxes than I pay in rent. I don't understand that at all.
5. Repairs. My tech costs $75 per hour. Everything falls apart eventually.
6. Potential customers. People will call and grill you, book lots of time, and then cancel mysteriously a week before. You'll never know why.
7. Actual customers. Your love of music may be put to the test on occasion.
8. Headphones. They always blow out, proper mixes for tracking bands are impossible, the extension cables fray, plus they get sweaty and gross from the drummer's head. And decent ones are $100.