My good friend owned one, she did great the first year, luckily sold right as she made profits and then it went under once the new owners took it. I don't know about in the houston area, but they just had a thing on the news about it in the Orlando area how a lot of these tanning salons are going under because we are having a spike in electricity costs and therefore its costing them more money every month to run the salon but because of the economy they would likely lose more customers if they raise the prices.