From Rich Dad’s Real Estate Advantages (paraphrasing): It’s important to have a team to help you. Find a good lawyer and accountant. Don’t get your law advice from an account or your accounting advice from your lawyer. Go to local investment and real estate meetings. These can be found in real estate publications, bulletin boards at …
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Datsun 510 Stuff
I’ve wanted to do a 510 for a while now. If Garage Tune ends up getting new shop space, I’ll be picking up a 510 that’s for sale locally and beginning a new resto/mod build! I just wanted to make … Continue reading →
New shop space (FINALLY)?
Monday we’re going to check out some new shop space. I know it’s not all that exciting, but we might FINALLY have a brick and mortar shop! Wish us luck!
Outsourcing Jobs, Who Does it Really Help?
Due to our current economic environment (which I’ll get into in another rant) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about ways that we could potentially resolve some of the issues we’re all going through. One of the issues that came to mind was outsourcing and it’s pros and cons. Being a small business owner myself, …
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Tank Update (clean up crew, chromis, reef keeper lite)
So I’m not sure if I mentioned this but a few weeks ago I put a chromis in the tank and the poor little guy died. I did some investigating and found out that it was due to my pH being super low. Apparently when you use SOME types of dry rock, it can drop …
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Tank Update (just some random pics)
There has been a LOT of stuff done to my 40g lately, and I haven’t taken any pics of my 10g, so here are some updated pics of both.
Tank Update (40g is up and running!)
Wow, so I got the 40g up and running tonight! I planned on it, I planned everything I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it, but that doesn’t mean that I actually expected to ever finish, let alone for everything to work! It took some tweaking, and I’m sure it’ll take some …
Tank Update (20g long sump, other assorted stuff)
Today R&R got back from cali and picked up my stand and my 20g long that I’ll be using for my sump. I’m waiting on a friend to drop off my stand, but while I’m doing that, I figured I’d show you the progress that was made tonight. I got some grid cut for the …
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Tank Update (plumbing, plumbing, and more plumbing)
Tonight I got as much of the plumbing completed as I could, I don’t think there’s much more that I can do until my stand comes in. I have the drains plumbed and sealed, and the returns plumbed and sealed. I know it’s not what most would consider “standard plumbing” for a tank, but you’ve …
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Tank Update (holes drilled, back painted, skimmer box cut)
So tonight, I.. well I did the above. I decided to pick up a 3rd 3/4″ slip/slip bulkhead for a drain. I SHOULD have just used 1 1/4″ drains, but I didn’t do the calculations initially.. You live and you learn. Either way I got all 3 drain holes drilled tonight, and I cut the …
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