Buying broke down appliances

Originally Posted by olddude

talking about the south and old cars, I came across a super bird sitting in the back yard of this old ladys trailer one day, she was using it for storage of old useless cloths and junk. that was 30 years ago im sure the ants finaly burried it. I couldnt buy it from her for any price. that car is worth up to 1 million $ today. the numbers of 57 chevys rusted away to dust in front yards down here are uncountable.

When I was working for my Uncle in Mesquite, they passed some code compliance ordinance threatening to shut off people's water service if they didn't clean up their yards, I was buying old caddys and suburbans for 25 bucks, and taking them straight to the scales. I made friends with a code compliance officer, and found out what neighborhoods he was working. I wouldn't even have to knock on doors sometimes, people would flag me down. Man those where the days

I used to scrap washers and dryers and then I looked up "appliance repair" in the phone book.

A timer for a washing machine is $75 minimum and these appliance repair guys will always buy broken ones at $25 - $50 each to get parts cheap. I haven't scrapped a washer in a while (except the ones I find out in the desert that have been used for target practice).

Around here, alot of people set them out on the curb with a "free" sign on it and you can just pick them. You can troll Craigslist too for freebies but it's just too competive for me to fool with.

Overall there's much more profitable things than washers and dryers but I'll grab them when I see em.