Before you even apply for your online job or start your online business, you need to know if you can legally work from your own home. The odds are, that if you are going to be working alone, you will most likely not be affected by zoning laws, restrictions of an owners association or a tenant agreement unless you plan to stock and ship merchandise or unless you plan to have employees working for you at your home.
If your job or your business plan is to simply work all by yourself using your home computer, you will not likely be violating any body else’s space. On the other hand, if you do plan to store inventory and ship merchandise or if you do plan on having employees working with you from your home, then you need to know what the local zoning laws are. You need to know if there are restrictions placed on you by an owner’s association agreement that you signed or on a tenant agreement or lease that you signed.
You need to gather this information and educate yourself before you step into the Internet jungle. You don’t want to get shut down before you even get started.