Short story. The guy that picks up our scrap, brings his beat ass 1997 2500 to us all the time. Fuel lines rotted out, tank was leaking, couldnt even put it on the lift because we thought it would fold in half. Judging the book by the cover you would think he isnt doing so red hot.
in reality, he just needs this truck to last 130 days more, until his 2013 3500 crewcab duramax alison fully loaded truck is built and he can pick it up, lien free. Dude used to scrap old buildings, back when they had to PAY to get rid of it. He would bid on it. Get paid to take it away, and piled it up on his few acre property. Scrap went through the roof and he made 3/4 of a mill in a year. While doing that and leading up to it, he started with one appt, fixed, rented, got another, 7 later was making a good on the books living. He has never paid a single interest payment, load payment, finance charge, or owe’d anyone, a single penny.
Long list of “damn that dudes smart” stories. Best is how back when 3$ an hr was min wage, we would go out and collect WORMS, and sell them to a bait distributor. They would give him $15 a lb, he could get an lb in 20 minutes. He would make $100-200 a night under the table. Thats about 300-600$ this day in age. He would pay kids $5 an hr (2 more than min wage) to do the picking. 5 kids later, each night he would get $400-600 worth, or $1200-1800 this day in age a night! lol
I will never judge a book by the cover anymore!