Comment Re:You're dying off (Score 1) 287
Not saying I disagree entirely, my last car was new as well (10 years ago, so I haven't made a payment in 5 years), but your comparison wasn't 100% on.
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they were trying to be a broker for sales, not rentals and equipment sharing.
"the problem with renting special equipment is you also have to have the trained personnel to operate it. mostly you are better off contracting the service of having the earth moved instead of renting the equipment to do it yourself"
This business is NOT about renting bulldozers to homeowners digging a basement. It's about renting bulldozers to a contractor who already knows how to operate them and has all the licensing (or has an employee who does), but doesn't have enough jobs that need dozers to justify buying one that will sit unused most of the time. By doing it as a peer-to-peer agreement rather than one company owning all the equipment and taking all the risk, everyone can make money.
BTW, one of the money-makers my HVAC installer mentioned was that they own a crane and have a licensed operator
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