Quote Originally Posted by davidarlen View Post
Hi, I drive around town and pick up free Craig's list stuff I also advertise and people call me to pick up items. I take them home and process them Then load up my dump trailer with steel until it is full and take it to a recycle yard. I do this from my home. I have about 1 acre lot and it is dirt at the bottom where I disassemble and sort to get the copper and aluminum and stainless steel out of appliances. The county tells me I can not have a scrap metal business in a residential area. This is the 2nd warning now I have a $100.- dollar fine and it will keep going up if I do not comply. To me this is just a hobby for extra cash, I possibly earn $500 a month, probably less if I count all my expenses. So I do not think it can justify renting space to disassemble stuff. I enjoy it and really do not want to stop. I want to see if any other members have problems with neighbors calling the city or county on them and how they resolved the issue? Thanks David

That totally blows, man. In my neighborhood, 25% of the neighborhood are scrappers, lol.