Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/19/21 10:12 AM
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Time to move on with my life, just can't stand another year in Illinoise. The problem is do I move to Tennessee or Florida, I have opportunities in each state... Depends on weather you prefer Hurricanes or Tornados.....buddy of mine lives in Florida...it gets so humid there he works on his car at 3am. Yep, I am a tornado kinda guy, they have small paths and are gone in an instant, grew up in northern Indiana and got knocked down by one the day before my birthday in the mid 70's that killed a couple of people in Monticello, IN. I hate humidity also, that is why I still live up nort. I hear TN can be bad with humidity also, but shorter span.
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/19/21 10:14 AM
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Move all the parts to a former limestone or underground coal mine in retirement Kentucky, or if you prefer, a cave. The “Karst Geology” area around Bowling Green/Mammoth Cave National Park is riddled with underground space. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/kentucky/underground-places-ky/Remember what happened at the Corvette museum? Even if you do not seek out a cave, the cave may come to you. I heard the hole opened up and swallowed the Vette museum because the plant used to be a Chrysler AirTemp facility before GM bought it and moved manufacturing there, just normal retribution, hit them where it hurts the most!
The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it.
JB Rhinehart, Realist
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/19/21 10:25 AM
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I can feel your pain, my thinking, do like a band aid, just be quick about it, its all just stuff anyway. Curious about the building, what year was that built? Its got a touch of art deco? Are new owners going to use it, or tear it down? With all the Floridians moving to Tenn, I surprised they haven't yet built a wall. 1921 it was built to be a Dodge Brothers dealership but never opened as that, don't know much between then and 1944 when it became a DeSoto dealership then Plymouth and Chrysler until 2009 when a certain President decided there was no room to let dealers for Chrysler make money anymore... Wow, maybe we should started a Moparts go fund site to save it, thats a very historic automobile building, especially for this crowd IMO, I hope it gets saved intact, and not a new location for a Wawa? My recollection of the dealer trimming in the 08 recession is different, I thought its was an underhanded scam by corporate to prop up their favorite dealers, I never understood how it was more profitable for Corporate by reducing number of independent franchises, although it was popular to blame everything on the person in charge at the time.
" All sorts of things can happen when you are open to new Ideas" Inventor of Kevlar
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/19/21 12:03 PM
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I can feel your pain, my thinking, do like a band aid, just be quick about it, its all just stuff anyway. Curious about the building, what year was that built? Its got a touch of art deco? Are new owners going to use it, or tear it down? With all the Floridians moving to Tenn, I surprised they haven't yet built a wall. 1921 it was built to be a Dodge Brothers dealership but never opened as that, don't know much between then and 1944 when it became a DeSoto dealership then Plymouth and Chrysler until 2009 when a certain President decided there was no room to let dealers for Chrysler make money anymore... Wow, maybe we should started a Moparts go fund site to save it, thats a very historic automobile building, especially for this crowd IMO, I hope it gets saved intact, and not a new location for a Wawa? My recollection of the dealer trimming in the 08 recession is different, I thought its was an underhanded scam by corporate to prop up their favorite dealers, I never understood how it was more profitable for Corporate by reducing number of independent franchises, although it was popular to blame everything on the person in charge at the time. The odd thing is every single franchise closed was Republican owned except one. Corporate had nothing to do with it as I recall, it was Obama's team that made the decisions .
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/20/21 12:05 AM
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Me thimks ole JimBo is secretly a BILLIONAIRE ! It's no secret. He's got a BILLION parts...
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/20/21 06:55 AM
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Yep, I am a tornado kinda guy, they have small paths and are gone in an instant, grew up in northern Indiana and got knocked down by one the day before my birthday in the mid 70's that killed a couple of people in Monticello, IN. I hate humidity also, that is why I still live up nort. I hear TN can be bad with humidity also, but shorter span.
I was in high school at Culver Indiana when the “super outbreak” of tornados occurred. I was super bored and suggested that all us military cadets go out and help people clean up. The school had once before sent out students to help during floods. To my surprise the ex-general head of the school said yes, cancelled classes, and us ROTC students loaded up in buses and 2.5 Ton dual fuel military trucks and went up to pile up trash. Way more memory making then sitting in class. I have a book about the super outbreak in Kentucky.
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/21/21 05:35 PM
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Best of luck with the sale & move, Rhino. If I was going to move out of Georgia, Tennessee would be the place. As said, Florida is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't even consider living there. Tim Hey HAY .... mop on da RAG ! What’s your problemO with Paradise? Too hot, too humid (although Georgia is a close second some times), too many hurricanes, too many Yankees , etc. Take your pick. Actually lived in Orlando for 6 mos. back in '69. Dad had gotten a job offer and moved us down there. After 6 mos. we moved back to Georgia as he couldn't make the money down there he made up here. Probably would have been a different story say, 10 yrs. later after Orlando had the big building boom after Disney got going. I dearly love the N. Ga.-Tennessee-N. Carolina mountains (matter of fact we just got back from a weekend up there). Wifey and I retired to the foothills in N. Ga. back in '12 but moved back to metro Atlanta in '14 when the grandkids started making an appearance. We were talking how much we missed living up there but didn't think we would move back at our age. Don't take it personal, Doc. We have some good friends in Florida. Just not my kinda place. Tim
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/21/21 06:45 PM
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Best of luck with the sale & move, Rhino. If I was going to move out of Georgia, Tennessee would be the place. As said, Florida is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't even consider living there. Tim Hey HAY .... mop on da RAG ! What’s your problemO with Paradise? Too hot, too humid (although Georgia is a close second some times), too many hurricanes, too many Yankees , etc. Take your pick. Actually lived in Orlando for 6 mos. back in '69. Dad had gotten a job offer and moved us down there. After 6 mos. we moved back to Georgia as he couldn't make the money down there he made up here. Probably would have been a different story say, 10 yrs. later after Orlando had the big building boom after Disney got going. I dearly love the N. Ga.-Tennessee-N. Carolina mountains (matter of fact we just got back from a weekend up there). Wifey and I retired to the foothills in N. Ga. back in '12 but moved back to metro Atlanta in '14 when the grandkids started making an appearance. We were talking how much we missed living up there but didn't think we would move back at our age. Don't take it personal, Doc. We have some good friends in Florida. Just not my kinda place. Tim EACH to their own TimBo ! Fur sure Florida can have some brutal humidity.... but so can GA and TN and even MA ! But that weather UP THERE takes A DIVE ....here it gets perfect for SEVEN MONTHS now
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/21/21 08:39 PM
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I need to move my 1700 square feet of shop space into my new shop which is almost done. Fraction of yours and I'm shaking in my boots.........
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/21/21 11:51 PM
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I can feel your pain, my thinking, do like a band aid, just be quick about it, its all just stuff anyway. Curious about the building, what year was that built? Its got a touch of art deco? Are new owners going to use it, or tear it down? With all the Floridians moving to Tenn, I surprised they haven't yet built a wall. 1921 it was built to be a Dodge Brothers dealership but never opened as that, don't know much between then and 1944 when it became a DeSoto dealership then Plymouth and Chrysler until 2009 when a certain President decided there was no room to let dealers for Chrysler make money anymore... Wow, maybe we should started a Moparts go fund site to save it, thats a very historic automobile building, especially for this crowd IMO, I hope it gets saved intact, and not a new location for a Wawa? My recollection of the dealer trimming in the 08 recession is different, I thought its was an underhanded scam by corporate to prop up their favorite dealers, I never understood how it was more profitable for Corporate by reducing number of independent franchises, although it was popular to blame everything on the person in charge at the time. The odd thing is every single franchise closed was Republican owned except one. Corporate had nothing to do with it as I recall, it was Obama's team that made the decisions . I seriously doubt that conclusion, unfortunately in today's climate, accuracy is no longer a virtue, and I am not directing that you as so much as maybe your source. If so, it is IMO highly questionable and likely illegal. Im sticking to my earlier stated suspicion, corporate wanted to favor select dealers with greater market share.
" All sorts of things can happen when you are open to new Ideas" Inventor of Kevlar
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/22/21 06:40 AM
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Sometimes I look at the houses/properties in Tennessee just for fun. Real estate there is much more reasonable than it is where I live. Obviously you'd want to do your homework for quality of life of any area but seems like a great bang for your buck. https://m.facebook.com/groups/findahomeintennessee/Good luck with the sale. That sure was a cool building. Dave
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/22/21 03:48 PM
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Don't envy you right now Jim.
The bankruptcy was such a raw deal for so many loyal dealers that had been in business forever. Chrysler used it as an excuse to get rid of a lot of smaller dealers. Most leaned right because they were mostly small town dealers and those areas generally lean that way.
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Re: Looks like I sold my building, the pain is about to begin...
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11/22/21 05:47 PM
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I can feel your pain, my thinking, do like a band aid, just be quick about it, its all just stuff anyway. Curious about the building, what year was that built? Its got a touch of art deco? Are new owners going to use it, or tear it down? With all the Floridians moving to Tenn, I surprised they haven't yet built a wall. 1921 it was built to be a Dodge Brothers dealership but never opened as that, don't know much between then and 1944 when it became a DeSoto dealership then Plymouth and Chrysler until 2009 when a certain President decided there was no room to let dealers for Chrysler make money anymore... Wow, maybe we should started a Moparts go fund site to save it, thats a very historic automobile building, especially for this crowd IMO, I hope it gets saved intact, and not a new location for a Wawa? My recollection of the dealer trimming in the 08 recession is different, I thought its was an underhanded scam by corporate to prop up their favorite dealers, I never understood how it was more profitable for Corporate by reducing number of independent franchises, although it was popular to blame everything on the person in charge at the time. The odd thing is every single franchise closed was Republican owned except one. Corporate had nothing to do with it as I recall, it was Obama's team that made the decisions . I personally spoke with several dealers that got the axe and they had a similar suspicions. One has been in business much longer (IIRC '70's ish), owned the property outright and was a more profitable store that two others in his same area of ft lauderdale. Congratulations Rhinodart and Gods speed in whatever you choose. As far as I'm concerned, Florida is the best choice if you can swing enough $ and many would gladly welcome you here The high humidity does take some getting used to and is NOT exclusive to Florida by any means. I remember my Napa AutoCare Center shop in the Atlanta area would not only get hotter than any Florida day, sometimes over 100*, it would get just as humid. Some days wouldn't have even a slight breeze whatsoever! Dead still heat and humidity that I felt was prepping me for what hell's reception lobby would feel like. Copper
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