Does salon suite rent include utilities?

Every salon suite company answers this question for their own buildings only. One company says one thing, another says something else, and a search engine hands you whichever one it trusts that day. So we’ve lined them up side by side, in their own words, and checked every one live today.

Here’s the good news: the utility lines you’d expect usually come built into a suite’s weekly rent. The costs that actually surprise people are the ones nobody asks about on the tour.

What’s usually included in salon suite rent, and what’s extra?

Electric, water and Wi-Fi are usually built into the rent at the companies we checked, while backbar, insurance, laundry and card fees almost always land on you, on top of it. For this checklist, we opened all six pages below live on 2026-09-23 and copied their own wording straight into the table, so nothing here is secondhand.

Here’s the whole list, line by line...

Two patterns hold across every page we opened for this checklist. National chains bundle utilities into the rent more consistently than independent landlords do, and every page treats backbar, insurance and card fees as yours to pay, always.

So ask for the total number after everything, every time.

Does bex+Co. rent include utilities?

No, because the membership has no separate utility bill to include or exclude. It runs on one open floor, so you won’t have a leased space of your own or a meter in your name. To confirm that, we checked the live bex+Co. site and the full course archive ourselves on 2026-09-23 and found utilities never stated as their own line item anywhere, so this page makes no claim either way rather than guess.

Here’s what the bex+Co. site does state, in writing...

Towels, capes, backbar, cleaning supplies and trays all come with it, plus professional cleaning of the space. You get day-and-night access with your own key, per the bex+Co. site, and the Vagaro booking software partnership and luxury product partnerships are part of it too. That’s everything, except color and tools.

The membership also includes my course, the Beauty Empire Blueprint™, along with ongoing business education and coaching, and a bio with booking links on the bex+Co. site. Most suite leases leave all of that up to you.

What should I ask about utilities before I sign anywhere?

You should get the answer in writing, every time, and a verbal assurance doesn’t count. Asking about extra costs is something I teach in my Important Questions to Ask Salon Owners lesson, where one line has students find out whether there are additional costs or fees tied to the space, and it names utilities as the first example. So ask it everywhere you tour, bex+Co. included.

Here’s what to ask on the tour...

• Is there a separate electric or water bill, or one flat number?
• Is Wi-Fi metered, capped, or genuinely unlimited?
• Who covers it if the building's utility rates rise next year?
• What’s the full monthly number after every add-on, the rent line and everything else?

Who this is for

This one’s for you if you’re comparing a salon suite against another option, including a membership like ours, and you want the real monthly number before you sign anything. You won’t find bex+Co. membership pricing on this page, by standing policy. I walk through the full cost breakdown for going independent in the real cost of going independent, and the 10 questions to ask on any tour covers the rest of a lease beyond the utilities line.

What should I do next?

Take this checklist to every tour, wherever you’re looking, and ask for the total number after every utility and every add-on, in writing. To see how an open-floor membership compares, come walk a bex+Co. floor and ask the same questions there.