Last good year---2003!

[Tom Thumb]

After 30 years of sales I have found this to be true and it has been good for me.

If you always do what you have always done , you will always have what you have.

I have never seen a problem , that did not create an opportunity.

 

[Chiefs]

So how many of you sent you last tax rebate check back to the government and told them to apply it to the budget deficit? If you're for even high gas prices and don't think you pay enough in taxes either personally or at your business, then by all means vote democrat - er uh socialist.

 

[Patrick H. Crowe]

Dear Scout:

Of course you are generally right about 2003 being the last good year for many areas. Dah??????? It is mostly true of those fools who bought washes without knowing, in exact detail, what they were worth and how to determine that. The BS of "I'll make it work" or "Buy it and they will come" is now being proven to be a craven hoax - - - as many of us knew all along.

Now, opportunity KNOCKS - - LOUDLY. Once a person knows what washes are REALLY worth then the slow economy offers chances galore to buy right and make money. Many, many washes are on the market and at least in this area, not selling. The current owners base the asking price on what they paid 2, 3, 4, years ago. Totally meaningless.

Once they go back to the bankers who also knew almost nothing about real fair market value for wshes them step in and buy. It takes due dilligence but when stocks are up, go long; down, go short. Forget abou bitc----- about the market. Instead answer the call of opportunity.

Patrick H. Crowe

 

[mac]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Patrick, you hit the nail on the head. I just wish you had not told the others about it. Where I'm at there are a lot of washes that banks will own by the end of the year. There is even some poetic justice in it. Two of the people I suspect will get out are owners that I told not to buy automatics. Knew they were in places that would never show a profit.

 

[Patrick H. Crowe]

Mac:

Amen. amen, amen!

Patrick H. Crowe