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Thursday the 21st there was a fire of unknown origin at my warehouse. My shop is ok (3miles away), but my warehouse was heavily damaged. I lost a little bit of merchandise to fire damage, a bit more to water damage. Fortunately the fire was limited to the smallest of the three rooms I occupied at the warehouse.
As fate would have it, I went to the warehouse for a routine visit, and arrived just after the fire was suppressed, in total shock mode. Before I could reach the firemen to find out what happened the a****** opportunist board-up people [there were over a half-dozen company reps on site] were all over me. It was all I could do to get them off of me. Totally disgusting.
My mother owns the warehouse, and my time and energy has now shifted into triage mode of securing the premises, as well as coordinating and implementing repairs to the property myself. Fortunately for me, I have over three decades of experience in property maintenance and repairs and have the skills, the tools, and a current business license for construction repairs. Fxxx those asshat sharks.
Bottom line: until we determine what the insurance company will and won't take care of, I have to proceed as though we are uninsured. There are no time-outs on vandalism. My time for running Mark's Off Road is almost gone. My wife is still very capable of helping me ship stuff [our standard MO] but I don't have any time for rebuilding.
In my dream world, you all would continue to leave messages for your parts needs [not the unobtanium stuff every one else has run out of] and give me a chance to return calls in my now book-ended days, either calling early in the day, or late in the day. If I've got it, and I can get to it easily, I'd love to sell it to you and not have to take as big of a financial hit while I'm helping my mom get the property stabilized.
Everything is SO preliminary at this point. I'd like to think I can get through all of it in a month, but I just don't know.
As my sig line so often indicates, thank you for your patience...and your patronage.
AS ALWAYS, PLEASE DO NOT PM ME WITH BUSINESS QUESTIONS. I use a telephone to conduct my business. Thank you.
As fate would have it, I went to the warehouse for a routine visit, and arrived just after the fire was suppressed, in total shock mode. Before I could reach the firemen to find out what happened the a****** opportunist board-up people [there were over a half-dozen company reps on site] were all over me. It was all I could do to get them off of me. Totally disgusting.
My mother owns the warehouse, and my time and energy has now shifted into triage mode of securing the premises, as well as coordinating and implementing repairs to the property myself. Fortunately for me, I have over three decades of experience in property maintenance and repairs and have the skills, the tools, and a current business license for construction repairs. Fxxx those asshat sharks.
Bottom line: until we determine what the insurance company will and won't take care of, I have to proceed as though we are uninsured. There are no time-outs on vandalism. My time for running Mark's Off Road is almost gone. My wife is still very capable of helping me ship stuff [our standard MO] but I don't have any time for rebuilding.
In my dream world, you all would continue to leave messages for your parts needs [not the unobtanium stuff every one else has run out of] and give me a chance to return calls in my now book-ended days, either calling early in the day, or late in the day. If I've got it, and I can get to it easily, I'd love to sell it to you and not have to take as big of a financial hit while I'm helping my mom get the property stabilized.
Everything is SO preliminary at this point. I'd like to think I can get through all of it in a month, but I just don't know.
As my sig line so often indicates, thank you for your patience...and your patronage.
AS ALWAYS, PLEASE DO NOT PM ME WITH BUSINESS QUESTIONS. I use a telephone to conduct my business. Thank you.
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