I bought a Kia Sportage 4 X 4 for $2500.00 (seller was asking $4000.00) and sold it for $4100.00 ( Profit: $1600.00 ).
So that was a $6650.00 total profit in just a few weeks and it would have been more had I not sold the Mercedes wagon so cheap! Thanks very much for The Lazy Way To Buy And Sell Cars For Profit...its a great book that really opened my eye's to what I could do with this!" Ken Tyler, El Cajon, Cali[...].
I bought an 81 turbo diesel Mercedes Benz station wagon for $625.00 (he was asking $1400.00). I sold it for $2000.00 right away ( Profit: $1375.00 ) but realized after that I could have easily gotten about $5000.00 for it! I bought an 83 Fiat for $1400.00 (seller was asking $2000.00) and sold it for $3500.00 ( Profit: $2100.00 ).
And besides being exhausted, I had developed severe and sometimes crippling pain in my back and neck. The pain was so bad sometimes that I could hardly get out of bed in the morning...but I had to...because who else was going to pay the bills? Bottom line: I was physically and mentally burned out If you have worked construction for a long time then I'm sure you can relate to this.
Almost 50 MILLION new cars were manufactured in 2006 alone...and that was a 6 1/2% increase over the previous year! What happens to all those new cars after a few years? Their owners sell them (at a huge loss) and they too become part of the immense global used car market...that YOU can profit from! Here is a small sample of a few of my own profitable used car deals...
That is when I realized what the term "Quality Of Life" meant. Yes, it was a very good life and I can proudly say that I achieved my objective of windsurfing my ass off because the awesome days of wave sailing (i.e.
Hmmm, I needed a car for my wife and after talking to the guy and negotiating a bit, I bought it. Yeah, cool deal, except the wife-ee person didn't like the car I just bought her! Hey c'mon, I just put out $450.00 and now I had to sell the thing?! And sell it I did, in fact...
windsurfing in waves) I missed in those years, could be counted on only one hand (seriously)...and that was...
The time involved for each one of those car deals was maybe 2 to 6 hours each. I'm going to reveal a lot more about the secretive used car business, but first I want to tell you how I discovered this business...
We had a huge yard sale...and moved...and I can't even begin to express to you how exciting and a bit scary it was to be doing that! But then the job I had lined up fell through after the first week! So here we were in one of the most expensive places to live on earth (seriously)...with little cash...no "connections", no family or friends to rely on…and the place was going through the worst recession in over 20 years! YIKES! I don't give up easily, but dang...this was messed up man! It was only the combination of silly pride, stubborness, and my insatiable desire to windsurf that kept me from bailing out with my tail between my legs and taking the next flight home! Shortly after (and trying reeeally hard to maintain and NOT freak out over what I had gotten myself and family into), I went to a moving sale and noticed a filthy car parked in the the guys car port.
Make Investment Sold For My Profit Dodge $597.00 $2250.00 $1653.00 Dodge 880.00 1900.00 1020.00 Nissan 950.00 2000.00 1050.00 Toyota 1000.00 2600.00 1600.00 Nissan 1206.00 2100.00 894.00 Isuzu 1538.00 3950.00 1766.00 Nissan 1752.00 3650.00 1898.00 Ford 433.00 1375.00 1268.00 Please Note: The Investment column above was the total cash I had in the cars at the time I sold them.
My two kids were growing up way too fast, and even when I took a weekend off, I was usually too exhausted to do much with them because I had to rest my body in preparation for the next exhausting work week.
Wave sailing was my passion, but if there wasn't any wind then I would go surfing, or bodysurfing. No wind and no waves would have me snorkeling or just swimming in the crystal clear azure 85 degree+ water.
"Effort? You mean I have to do something?" YES, and if that freaks you out, then please don't waste your time reading any further because as easy as this is -- you will have to do something -- just like Ken Tyler from California did...
Yeah, big move, but I desperately needed to change the focus of my life from working all the time to having a healthier more enjoyable lifestyle...and to do the thing that I passionately loved to do…but didn't have time to fully pursue before...and that was windsurfing! Seriously, I just had to get the windsurfing bug out of my system...and knew that if I didn't...it would drive me friggin nuts! Henry David Thoreau said: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" Well, that summed up me and my life, but I certainly wasn't very quiet about it though! So I very carefully planned our escape.
By the end of the week I felt beat up, exhausted and hopeless. Beat up and exhausted because of the incredibly taxing physical and mental aspects of my work (custom cabinetmaking)...and hopeless because I was so unhappy with the treadmill of a life I had created for myself.