Alright guys (and gals), I love talking about all of my ideas, and trust me there's quite a few in my head at any given moment, so I figured I'd make one of the ongoing threads. I really just need to type this stuff out and run it by other people. Oddly my wife doesn't particularly care to hear about my scrapping adventures. Fair enough, I hate talking about make up and decorations.
So the story today is I've started liquidating all of the metal from my previously open to the public scrap yard. The operating margin got low enough that it just wasn't worth it. we got 240 tons of steel sent out today so only about 380 tons left. The rest of the ferrous and non-ferrous will be sent out over the course of next week. After that, I'm going to start buying cars from insurance companies, banks, and locals to start a pull-a-part yard. I ordered signage for the front of the building and mailed a flyer for it to everyone that passed through the pay gate for advertising. Funnily enough, I already have the equipment for it. The wife says I hoard anything with wheels (and things that used to have wheels).
I also finalized a contract to build a nearby town municipal building. They already bought out the land and houses, which are mobile homes. 5 of which are fairly new, being mid-2000's, and 2 of which are old and ratty. So out of the older two, i'm going to build a flatbed goose neck, because how many is really too many? lol I haven't decided if I'm going to sell the 5 or become a landlord. They're in very good condition so, I could rent them out for around 1000 a month or sell them for around 30k. I just don't know about the hassles of being a landlord. I have a few trucks coming next week to remove them and tow them to my warehouse location so making a decision isn't too urgent.
Of course, I'll post pictures of the most interesting parts
Thanks for reading my ramblings guys, Rob
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