****new shop sale****

or rather a fund raiser... long story short... :lolno: some of you know i live in a very small town, not even a town really just a section of a small county.
anyway, rental property is limited. when we moved, i rented a house with basically two garages, it was great one for clean stuff one for dirty.
well, a house came up for sale, it was seriously cheap, so i bought it... and am in the process of renovating it... found out why it was so cheap...
anyway, it does not have a garage, so, i rented the only space available, it happens to be in a strip type of thing. it was fine, cheap and worked.
then the rain came... it leaked like a old wood boat, so the landlord instead of fixing the roof offered the space he was using as an office. the deal was... i could keep my old shop keep the motorcycles and boat parts there and have full access to both for the same price as i was paying. now the new spot is much larger! win!!! well... it was for a bit, i got all moved over just before taking off on the boat delivery. about two weeks into the delivery while in Antigua i get a text saying i have to move all the boats, bikes and my crap out of both offices, he is changing the locks and selling what is there in two days. WTF my girl calls says he called her (she rents a space here for her business) at 7:00 am cussing and screaming at her saying hes changing locks, tossing us both out, etc... now i can not do anything about it other than call in favors get the bikes moved, call the sheriff (friend of mine) get the locks changed and wait till i get back. i get back, the guy hides from me for a month, then i catch him! he acts like nothing happened... i confront him, he says, "well its my building, i can do what i want", me with lease in hand saying i have a lease on both units, say, "not till my lease is up!". we hash out some irrational agreement, (tracked down previous renters, apparently he does this from time to time) and go back to work. now the problem, i need out of here before may 27th when my lease is up, as he told me he would jack the rent up. now i am already paying a bit more than a grand just to be here as the new shop apparently pays for 3 units power... something i did not know going into it, so now i have two power bills and effectively paying power for the whole building at a commercial rate.

with the slow down of my end of things in the rep game, and trying to regroup, and finish the house before the girl leaves... i need to make some cash so i can build a building to work out of, nothing fancy, a glorified shed. yes i looked at the ones on the side of the road, but they sux, cheaply built and cost a ton, and if i do the payments they offer i will pay 20k for 1500 bucks worth of mulch in 5 years.

i will be listing items i have horded for a while, cases, watches, movements, dials, etc. if there is anything you need or have been looking for let me know, while i am sorting through the stuff i will set it aside for you.

no this is not a fire sale to abandon the hobby its just a fund raiser, i have gotten to the point i can make pretty much anything i need dials, case backs, case backs, cases to a point, hands, etc. so dumping some of this stuff wont hurt me, and will free up some valuable space in the new shop.

thanks for reading the not so short, short version of the long and stressful story.