Now that you have decided that starting a home based career is for you, you must think about the many things you will need to get started. Aside from choosing the type of opportunity you'd like to start with, determining your budget and your business plan. Now, the last few things to take care of are setting up your office, making baking arrangements, re vamping your home among other things that will make having a home based business as easy a transition as it can possibly be.