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pete f
01-22-2003, 09:54 PM
For those who followed along, I thought it was time for an update report.
The phone: I had it hooked up around the Christmas time, and as I pointed out, the previous phone had been out of order for at least 3 months. Last time I checked, the phone had $58 in it, coin. I assume my dial around will ad a few bucks once that is set up. With a line charge of around $35, owning your own phone seems feasable. The regualr (phone) customers are starting to show up..

The $465,000 new mat in the leased shopping center across the street. Well, his revenue has continued to grow, He is around $200 a day now. My mat, which I had remodeled, is doing a little more than it had the previous year thru Dec, into Jan now. I feel he took the fluff from my remodel, about $30 a day, away from me. I am about 10% better than last year, but my equipment note sucks all that and more, so cash flow wise about the same.
I made the last payment to the former owner this month, so the mat has paid for itself in 5 years, really, I do not have much of my own money in it, sio is hard to complain.
I do feel sorry for anyone who has sunk 465k into a mat and only does $200 a day. His new store he just built, store #2, and this one he bought the building, all tolls about $700k, has been open for a couple weeks. This one is a distance from me, but still near other well established mats. On a recent drive by last Saturday the older mats seemed busy, the new guy had 2 cars, a caddy SUV and a Lexus in the driveway, I am assuming he and his wife?

The BUCS won the divison champs and are on the way to the SUPER BOWL! Hell will now freeze over.. Good luck BUCS!

mike
01-23-2003, 10:05 AM
It's a $465,000. time-bomb,
It goes off when the lease expires.
Of course he can move the machines to another location that he OWNS.
It seems he already figured that out.
He seems to want to exterminate competition with money, always an expensive strategy.