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   jason_dd | Jan 09, 2003 02:39am | #1

   Try a google search for "Urban Ore" and "Omega Salvage".  Both are salvage companies in Berkeley, California with successful but different set-ups.

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   UncleDunc | Jan 09, 2003 03:21am | #2

   My impression is that business requires an awful lot of storages space, relative to the value of the stuff you're storing. Can you sell the stuff for enough to pay for storing it, in addition to all the other costs of running a business.

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   JMartindal1 | Jan 09, 2003 04:47am | #3

   try http://www.blackdogsalvage.com/ they are in VA. Been round for several years. Must be doing something right.

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   Novy | Jan 09, 2003 04:57am | #4

   Bryan,

    Here is one in Nova Scotia to have a look at

   http://www.renovators-resource.com/

   On An Island By The SEA
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   Piffin | Jan 09, 2003 05:00am | #5

   I've got an inlaw who just sold his out. It's a lot of hard work for the money.

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   Excellence is its own reward!

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   Frankie | Jan 09, 2003 01:00pm | #6

   The trick is to be the first one to salvage the stuff. I know a co. that has deals with demolition - major demolition - co.s and he flys all over the country and to get into bldgs before they come down or are renovated. That's where you get the really good and big stuff. There is a fee for this and sometimes his window is only a week (or less) long. Aside from storage, sniffing out where the veins of diamonds are to be mined is pretty much a major part of the job. But once you've been doing it for a while you develope a nose for this.

   I know a couple of bldgs in NYC where I have a standing deal with the super.s for salvaging various hardware that is no longer avaiable. Develope relationships, relationships, relationships.

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   Piffin | Jan 10, 2003 06:03am | #7

   In other words, it takes time to build.

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   Frankie | Jan 10, 2003 08:16am | #9

   And un-build!

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   4Lorn1 | Jan 10, 2003 07:31am | #8

   Do the customers bring you the stuff or do you pick the stuff up?

   These pick up runs. Do you wait for the people to leave or just pull on ski masks and carry crow bars?

   Have you found it better to just pay off the police or is it better to invest the money into the truck engine and outrun them?

   ;-}