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Quarterly Estimates are child’s play now.

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I much preferred the old site.

$700 million might get it gutted lol. This will be $2 billion+ plus by the time it's done.

I think the cheapest solution would be to just have a door guy come put some residential metal garage doors. The whole shooting match, rails springs, everything so it's matched, I guess about $1500 each? Been a while since I bought a door like that.

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Nothing I would buy. Vehicles are depreciating assets. Buy used, reliable vehicles that are bare bones. Pay cash and be done.

InB4: Tac is an idiot because I could get 0% on something with $20-$30k of options I don’t want or need. Also paying full coverage insurance because of my loan and I don’t trust the fact I drive like an a-hole.

A fool and his borrowed money.

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Didn't you buy a porsche?

edit: NVM that was fareplay

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Auberge is great with beautiful views of the valley.

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Wife and I had our 25th anniversary dinner there. Worst fine dining experience of my life. The food was great, the venue was beautiful, the service was OK. There was a table of very drunk, very obnoxious thirty somethings that ruined it for us. The staff not really doing anything about it was the real problem. They kept yelling "frick" and "BITCOIN BRO" and shite like "I'M GETTIN THE LAMBORGHINI". After an hour of this, staff came over and said they had 7 separate complaints on that table. So then it was more of the same with one woman constantly going "SHHHHHH!!!" We were 2 courses in and the service slipped with 30 minutes between courses and my wife's and mine were totally out of sync. At that point we were done. I went to speak to the manager, asked her to charge us for what we had so far as we wanted to leave. My wife was very upset and the manger offered to have us back, told us to not worry about the bill and that she was very sorry. I had a $100 bill in my pocket and left it for the staff. Adios, Auberge!

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chevy should have zero say in where another business locates itself.

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What if Chevy tells you in your contract how big your store needs to be and how many cars you need to buy for your area in exchange for exclusivity? This is what happens.

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You take away their protections and they collapse.

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People think that most of the big car companies want to sell direct. Sure maybe on a few high profit, low production models. The dealership system is a huge win for major auto makers and huge profit centers for them. The dealerships hold the inventory and the auto maker can charge interest on the floor plan. They buy expensive tools, training and furnishings and signage from the automaker.I was told the new porsche store had to buy over a million in furniture from porsche. The auto maker tells them how big the dealership needs to be to carry their brand and how many cars they are expected to sell. They make them carry the "dogs" to be able to get the hot models. They are able to insulate themselves from the end consumer and their complaints, especially high interest rate buyers. Many new cars are sold through the service departments. "sorry you can't afford that new $6k transmission but step over here and look at a new car, don't worry about that repair and your negative equity, we can roll that in"

Dealerships can't and won't just "go away" Do you think these dealers that are spending $50mm+ on a facility don't have iron clad exclusivity agreements including that the manufacturer can't sell cars direct in their market?

I know a few dealership GM's and my friend's family owns 17 stores in ATL, there is so much I learn about that business all the time by talking to these people over dinner and drinks. I've never been in the car business but it's always fascinated me.

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Ford has given billions to leftist causes for many years.

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They have also given to Republican causes as well. Smart companies play both sides of the fence.

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you gonna do steel tubing? There’s a place in kentwood (the pipe shop) that can fab everything for you and all you have to do is bolt or weld up and screen

go look at the pavilion we built at barracuda taco on govt st to see an example

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painted steel? over a salt/chlorine pool?

have had good luck in the past with Vinyltech

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They will eventually need to raise the income limit that is taxed. It sits at $184k.

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Are they going to raise the benefit? That's a 12+ percent increase on someone like a self employed doctor's salary above the limit. Will that help job numbers or healthcare prices?