Long ago.

[aviator]

In a different world. Made a lot of money there, lots of commercial accounts, Stores used to send trucks in loaded with merchandise to be refurbished, We had contracts with just about every electronics manufacturer, GE and RCA were the brands used by School Board and Hotels around town, we had that locked up with the distributor, then the commercial stuff for all the schools and colleges around. Korean and Japs used to come see me about known problems they needed to find an answer for, Sanyo, Sharp, Akai, Pioneer, Panasonic, Canon, Samsung, LG, you name it, we were the one to come to in Miami. Oh well, it also drove me to drink, too much stress, too many employees, too many problems. The day I l liquidated it and shut the doors I stopped drinking.

[44044]

A lot of people don’t know that

when you have a business…

It runs you

For better or worse

[REDOAK]

Originally Posted by 44044

A lot of people don’t know that

when you have a business…

It runs you

For better or worse

Yes, it does. And to a point to where your health deteriorates.

[aviator]

My boys grew up without taking a week long vacation, only long weekends, long hours, long days, sometimes had so much work I had to get the crew to work overtime on Saturdays even if we were closed for customers. I don't miss it one bit.

[500grains]

The good news: you had customers.

[aviator]

Originally Posted by 500grains

The good news: you had customers.

A lot of them but then changes in technology and changes on how manufacturers handled warranty made it difficult to make money, to top it off the school board decided to go for bids on the repairs even as I explained to them you can't bid on something you don't know what's going to take. It just got to be too much, so I closed my accounts, paid off what I owed and shut the doors. Bunch of guys collected unemployment for a while and I went and opened up a real estate office, I was already a R.E. Broker. That was 22-23 years ago. It was really good while it lasted.

[500grains]

You could have kept it open and switch it over to a money laundering operation for drug gangs. An opportunity missed!

[aviator]

Originally Posted by 500grains

You could have kept it open and switch it over to a money laundering operation for drug gangs. An opportunity missed!

That's right or a medicare scam clinic and steal millions of the government. Oh well I missed the opportunity.

Talking about Medicare scam, I had a lady come to me once who wanted to sell her house, it turned out her husband was running from the feds but she didn't tell me, when I looked up the deed I found out, him and his brothers had scammed the government of 40M Dollars and took a helicopter into Dominican Republic bought property there but when the feds found them they wound up in Cuba, anyhow she tells me he quit claim deed the property to her at some point, she gives me a deed with "his signature", so I went to the original mortgage papers and compared signatures...no fucking way he signed that, I told her I couldn't take the case. Sure enough the IRS came and kicked her out of the house and sold it at auction, beautiful home on a lake about two blocks from my house. I don't do anything dirty my friend, I'm already wealthy from working hard, don't need to get into trouble.

[aviator]

Oh, I remember another guy whose daughter was in my daughter's school, he asked me to find him a couple places suitable for medical buildings, He had a Rolex President on his wrist and drove an Escalade, so yes, he had money, I asked him if he was a doctor..."No, no, I just set clinics up and have doctors working there"...kind of strange but anything is possible, we never did any business together but a couple years down the road him, his wife and son, all went to jail for Medicare Scam and lost everything they had.

[500grains]

I hear the electric wheelchair business for the fatties on the government dole (seen shopping at Wal Mart) can be quite profitable.

[44044]

Originally Posted by aviator

Oh, I remember another guy whose daughter was in my daughter's school, he asked me to find him a couple places suitable for medical buildings, He had a Rolex President on his wrist and drove an Escalade, so yes, he had money, I asked him if he was a doctor..."No, no, I just set clinics up and have doctors working there"...kind of strange but anything is possible, we never did any business together but a couple years down the road him, his wife and son, all went to jail for Medicare Scam and lost everything they had.

He forgot...

25% for the DNC and 10% for Joe

[aviator]

Or i can always go back to school and get my JD….

[RTO]

Aviator, you reminded me of how we operated in the car audio business in the beginning of our company, early 70s. We were a warranty station for all of the domestic car manufacturer's radios and did repairs for all of NE Florida and SE Georgia. We repaired Delco, Philco, Motorola, Chrysler and a few others. Eventually we warranty repaired equipment for Fujitsu, Panasonic, Hitachi, Pioneer and a few other import car manufacturers. Also we did repairs for retail customers. The repair part of the business was a giant headache, lots and lots of paperwork done by hand back then. Cross referencing warranty claims to get paid and having to deal with the car dealerships really was a pain in the ass.

The day that we didn't need to do factory warranties to survive was a blessing.

[aviator]

Originally Posted by RTO

Aviator, you reminded me of how we operated in the car audio business in the beginning of our company, early 70s. We were a warranty station for all of the domestic car manufacturer's radios and did repairs for all of NE Florida and SE Georgia. We repaired Delco, Philco, Motorola, Chrysler and a few others. Eventually we warranty repaired equipment for Fujitsu, Panasonic, Hitachi, Pioneer and a few other import car manufacturers. Also we did repairs for retail customers. The repair part of the business was a giant headache, lots and lots of paperwork done by hand back then. Cross referencing warranty claims to get paid and having to deal with the car dealerships really was a pain in the ass.

The day that we didn't need to do factory warranties to survive was a blessing.

I know, you mentioned it befor, long time ago, we were in the same business, reckon that's why you were an RTO, no? I had the shop computerized as soon as I found the right software to do those NARDA forms, technicians just entered the part numbers on a work order and at the end of the month we printed everything out to each manufactureer.

[RTO]

Originally Posted by aviator

I know, you mentioned it befor, long time ago, we were in the same business, reckon that's why you were an RTO, no? I had the shop computerized as soon as I found the right software to do those NARDA forms, technicians just entered the part numbers on a work order and at the end of the month we printed everything out to each manufactureer.

I was trained as a communication center specialist in the army and did that while in Germany. After I got to Vietnam my MOS was changed to RTO. So with my commo background when I got out I found work with electronics after trying a few other jobs.