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    Quote Originally Posted by corycouch View Post
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    the biggest obsticle for me is the learning of making it through the highs and lows, a few weeks back we were only getting a couple cars a week and one week we only got one, last week i got 8, and am scheduled to pick up 4 today unless they cancel. after several weeks of only a couple cars which is my primary source of scrap coupled with buying the extra truck we got way below our comfort zone, we try to keep the better vehicles to sell as projects or to strip parts. saying this we had 10 or 11 cars the end of the week before and we have 16 now, all have enough potential to keep for parts or projects. today we only have enough hard cash to get diesel and to buy the first car and breakfast of course, today shouldnt be an issue as all the cars should be undesirable, a 97 voyager, transport, sable and an achieva, so we can do a rush job on these just pulling the easy parts and hauling off the cars for scrap, at the end of the day i should be up 4 digits. if one of the cars we get today ends up being a keeper we have to decide what to crush instead. when i had a job i didnt worry about much, not saying i do now i just have to be a little more careful.

    is it worth it? i think so but it will take a few years to see if i made the right decision
    Pretty much describes my situation to a "T" except I'm just a one man show so I don't quite pull that number of autos. Not enough hours in the day.

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