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    Julie is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    Ok here we go...

    Hi again! For some reason it wasn't letting me imbed the pictures but i was on my way out the door when i posted the last thread. I want to send my apologies to the admin staff for having to waste their time with my incorrect thread - it won't happen again.
    I'm holding off on the pictures until i make sure that I am doing it correctly but for now I'll just start telling you all how it is going so far:



    I got the ok from the owner of the material on friday mid morning so I let the 2 friends that I had offered the job of loading and driving the uhaul know that we were headed out in the morning around 630am. It's like a 2 hour drive to the place that I was renting the uhaul truck from and they didn't open until 930am so i couldn't leave any earlier. I didn't get to bed until 1230-1am trying to find coupons for the truck rental, maps and raid bug foggers. Needless to say I didn't get a much sleep as I would have hoped to get.

    It was supposed to be 107degrees at the location of the material that day and i'm pretty sure that it was hotter than that! I found out that if you try to pay cash for a uhaul rental they require a $100 deposit that you get back not by the location that you turn the truck into but 6-8 weeks later in the form of a check from corporate. I had only received one of the two paychecks that i was supposed to get that friday and there was no room in the budget for a delay like that. Not with gas for two vehicles, paying my friends for the job that I hired them to do and meals while out and about. This deposit is waived if you pay with a credit or debit card so I started calling family members who had such things,

    Finally got up to the property - the owner was super sweet and helpful. She even gave us wasp spray for the hornets that had nested in the pile. There were grasshoppers everwhere! It was crazy! I paid the owner $60 for all the stuff and 6 can of the spray, we went to work and that's when the nightmare started...

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