My studio (Jackpot!) is right next to another recording studio (Rex). It's kinda funny that it should be this way, but we share the same landlord, who was the only person that seemed to be remotely sympathetic to our idea of running a studio out of his building. Anyway, this studio next door has a ton of gear, nice engineers, and mostly what they do is make ads. I was sitting in their #1 control room one night, editing some stuff on their ProTools setup since I don't have a single computer in my place, and the engineer told me they charge $120 per hour for the room during the day. Then he told me that they had been trying to get into a new building, closer to downtown, so they could have a fancier place and charge more. And the scary thing was, even though they charge almost 6 times as much per hour as I do they still had no money to work with. It kind of put my desperate financial situation in perspective!