1/20/12

So my broke ass has been thinking again. I really need to get out from under that $600.00 a month money pit in Beenbroke, AKA the shop. I've been looking at the plans I have drawn up in Paint and am at a mental crossroads. Pouring a concrete drive around to the back of the house on Burkett and sharing a smaller shop elsewhere is one option. It isn’t a bad option either. The thing is the Burkett house is way too big for me and a cat. Oh sure, I could get more cats, but that house really is too big for me. Not to mention the fact that the shops John and I were looking at are all closer to my work’s side of town, and John's house, than they are to Burkett. If I were sharing a shop, and working, over here, I could stand to move over here. Of course that would get me into apartment rent or a mortgage as well as shop rent, and I'd be back in the same broke-ass boat I'm in now. So, Boyd? I've been looking at those plans… oh, I see I already said that. I like the 40’ wide steel buildings with apartments I have designed. One is 110’ long and the other is 80’ I believe. The 80’ one gets all of the cars I intend to keep inside and leaves two 15’x20’ bays open to rent to others. The 110’ unit gives me five bays available for rental. I'm sure I could squeeze some money out of John and Pat, “filling” two bays, but could I rent out the other three? Gregg would probably spring for one, which would thrill both John and Pat to no end! Gregg isn’t exactly a favorite person of either one of them. I can see it, and now that I think about it, I'm not sure I want Gregg in there either. Sorry dude. Ok, Larry might be talked into a spot, especially if “we” found him a project he wanted to get behind. Wow, I'm glad I saw that typo. I left the “o” out of the word “found” just then. We most certainly will NOT fund anyone’s projects. Anyhoo, so I guess I'm talking myself into a 40’x80’ steel building… again. I just have to convince mom that I'm still going to be into the car hobby in a few more years. Thing is, if the building isn’t anything super special, it could be sold as scrap at the very least leaving just a big assed concrete pad marring the landscape on the off chance I did decide I wanted to be out of the car hobby in the future. Of course another option would be to find some other piece of land, perhaps with an existing building on it, to buy and live/hobby on. I don’t know. That would add a lot to the mortgage I would think since I wouldn’t have to buy the land in Boyd, per se… at least I don’t think I would. Hmm, now I'm not so sure about any of this. Ok, so I've been on line looking at acreage for sale around here. There is a lot more of it available than I would have thought… and it isn’t as expensive as I imagined. I guess this economy has hit the real estate market pretty hard. Woo hoo! Buyer’s market! As if I had money to buy anything. What I'm thinking is I otter contact a few of these real estate agencies and see what is available in something I could use. I mean, I don’t need a four bedroom three and a half bath house on 0.73 acres. I need a few acres with a big steel building suitable to turn into my new shop… oh, and a one or two bedroom house sort of thing. I would imagine most of these “acreage with house” things I'm seeing will have an out building of some sort, but would it be big enough? I don’t know. Add in the fact that I'm far too lazy and short tempered with the intergoogles to search for very long, and we reach an impasse. Hmm, I guess I otter reconsider the reconsideration of reconsidering building in Boyd. I just sent a text to a contractor buddy asking what it would cost to get him to be the GC on the deal. Ooh, I'd really like to have that Mike Holmes dude from the TV come down from Canada and build me a place! That would be really cool. Maybe get it on the TV and everything! Yeah, like that could happen. Well, apparently my buddy isn’t interested. He just replied, “One MILLION dollars!” I guess he won't be building my shop. Oh, I asked Larry if he might be interested in a spot. He would. So I guess I might think about the 110’ building after all. Well, I think I've gassed on long enough for today. I'll tell y'all about the rescue of John's 210 on Monday. Toodles.