Northerner

Originally Posted by Area67

Done some scrappin' in the south (Florida), nice folks but man the stuff gets rusty fast..cars flop around bad from the rot and rip in half! You will have competition..it is an important source of income in rural areas. Might be a good e-scrap market, probably not well developed yet.

You make a good point about the competition. When all the construction slowed to a halt it put a lot of non skilled labors out of work and a lot of them turned to scrap to get by. You can drive down any back road around my area and not find a single hunk of steel. Years ago the back roads were cluttered with all kinds of scrap. They still dump the cases from TV's and the non metal parts of pull out couches and easy chairs.

Finding a job is not easy around these parts! A work crew these days consist of one American that speaks Spanish and and a van full of Mexicans. That's a whole different issue....

There are tons of AC units being changed out all the time. Most people can't live without them here. But the problem is that the companies all know the value of a system and sell them to a scrapper or have someone in house scrapping them out. I fall into the in house category. I would not expect coming by AC units by chance. There are a few guys around that is all they do is go and buy them from companies, so one would have to out bid them, cutting into your profit.

Copper Head if you do plan a move I would research the area first and see if getting a job is even an option where you go. Chances are if jobs are scarce then scrap will also be hard to come by.

Good luck, I for one would not live anywhere but here in the warm sunny south! I hate the cold!