What do you guys do for extra income?

[JGood]

where do you find out about these home auctions?

some guy i used to work with bought one of those how-to gimicks on tv that tell you how to buy property by paying peoples back taxes or whatever. he read it, paid someone's taxes for $3800, and got the house some months later. turned around and sold it for $60k. made like ~$45k profit after real estate agent fees and everything. went out and bought his mom a newer 325xi, and had a 525whp camaro built for himself. fucking asshole.

[Eric]

Home auctions, poor turnout in poor weather, you get some steals, you never know what you might find in the bottom or a $1 box. I bought the whole contents of a shed for $8, eBayed two items and made $200, and still had lot of useful odds and ends.

where do you find out about these home auctions?

[blunttech]

thanks! great memories too, it also makes one hell of a pick up line . they either run away and go ewwwwww, or stick around and give you a try....mostly the latter.

what movies have you starred in? my guess is any of the following

gold rush boys
raw meat 3
truckstop love
mo black dick
raw thugs 3

[der affe]

You are lucky as hell:crazy:

thanks! great memories too, it also makes one hell of a pick up line . they either run away and go ewwwwww, or stick around and give you a try....mostly the latter.

[Jscotty]

I I also hit up salvage yards for pricey items. Windows switches are good! I just started doing this and its turned out to be pretty profitable.

That's true. Ever since I learned how to fix the E30 instrument cluster I have been on a mission to find them in the junkyard. The last one I bought, I paid $40 for it, fixed the gear and then sold it on Craigslist for $120. I guess it also helped that the unit had less than 150K on it.

[equate975]

I do freelance photography (fun) and web design (getting out of this, it's fucking tedious). I get $50-250 an hour for this kind of work, so it's great supplimental income.

Yeah I did web design for a while. I loath it, sooooo much work and it is super tedious. Most boring work ever.

[Digitalwave]

Call me at 281 208 0100 if you have any problems with me. I work at bruno's erotic cabaret.

I do freelance photography (fun) and web design (getting out of this, it's fucking tedious). I get $50-250 an hour for this kind of work, so it's great supplimental income.

[equate975]

dude I traveled all over the place to find shit...

the supereta I had, I picked up out of twin cities, the 535is was from Madison, the E36 318i was twin cities... all 3 were ebay cars.
I only saw 4 BMWs all year in Winona. F that.

It is pretty hard to get good deals on ebay anymore... the bandwagon caught on....

Yeah, I've been hunting craigs list and the best deals I can find are busted up bmws that don't run for around $1k-$1.5

Edit:

And the resell is less than half of what that price is doubled. So its not even worth my time.

[equate975]

Pete, are you still building arcades?

I finished mine, I haven't built another one but I could.

[Funkmasta]

Pete, are you still building arcades?

[Funkmasta]

Joe, wtf did you even find cars here?

dude I traveled all over the place to find shit...

the supereta I had, I picked up out of twin cities, the 535is was from Madison, the E36 318i was twin cities... all 3 were ebay cars.
I only saw 4 BMWs all year in Winona. F that.

It is pretty hard to get good deals on ebay anymore... the bandwagon caught on....

[equate975]

I do a few things for some extra cash. Not a whole lot but its easy as hell.

First, I dumpster dive. Its really profitable.... Staples throws away the best shit ever. Some of the best scores I get are: empty ink, they don't recycle it like they should. Its worth a ton on ebay. Each 1/2 full garbage bag of it is worth $300-500. Software, I got two brand new box loads of norton AV, we ended up selling all of it for $600. I also just acquired a ton of peachtree accounting software. I haven't put it on ebay yet, but estimates are I will make another $500 or so.

This summer me and my buddies have gotten maybe $3k worth of shit, and maybe $1500 in resale. A lot of stuff we keep just because its a bitch to sell. Like office chairs, we just got a SUPER nice chair, brand new, $400 at staples with a 10 year warranty. I also got a brand new $300 filing cabinate that was discontinued, it weights like one fucking metric ton, so I just keep it in my room to put shit in.

Game places are good too. I recently got a brand new 360 DDR pad, couple ps2 controllers, memory cards etc. The best joke with this stuff is I go in the next day and sell it back to the store lol. Thats how I ended up paying for my brother bday present from game stop. I took all the crap they threw out a few weeks previously, turned it all back in, then bought him a wii game.


I also hit up salvage yards for pricey items. Windows switches are good! I just started doing this and its turned out to be pretty profitable. I got 4 window switches for $20 or so total. Ended up selling all of them for $195. The best part is its a pretty steady stream to get these items unlike dumpster diving where its just luck if you find anything.


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On a side note, I wish I could flip cars. MN Blows though, everyone things their piece of shit e30 is worth like $8k. Its so hard to find a cheap car anywhere. Anything you do find is just luck. The market for cars here blows.

Joe, wtf did you even find cars here?

[Jscotty]

The one thing that used to irritate me was seeing a someone buying stupid stuff when they owed me money. A friend of mine borrowed $50 from me because he was in a crisis and promised to pay me back the next day. At the time I was a poor college student and I could barely pay my own bills but I figured that I could re-arrange some things to be paid later and I could help him. So I loaned him the $50 out of what little money I had and then for the next 2 weeks I am calling this guy and leaving messages and going over to his place in attempt to find him. Finally I am in his neighborhood one day and I discover that he bought 2 kegs of beer and was having a house party.

I went to go see about my money. He said, "Oh man.. sorry scotty.. I had your money the other day but I didn't see you so I didn't think you wanted it.

[JGood]

I've been wondering... Are you considered clever where you are from or is Pennsylvania the state that wit forgot?

"is Pennsylvania the state that wit forgot?"

are you fucking retarded?

[Garageaholic]

holy shit