Quote Originally Posted by streetglideok View Post
I know there is a market for the mobile business, but I never could bring myself to it. I've had to do emergency repairs to friends vehicles in this kind of stuff, and there isn't enough money in it for me to do it. Hopefully you'll have better luck without a partner to drag you down, one reason I never jumped into opening my own shop I guess. Seeing you're a german specialist, if you decide you want to work for someone again, my employer is planning on opening up a shop in denver next year. We do a ton of german junk down here, but I pass that to our krout specialist,lol.
I signed a 5 year lease, I am not looking for a job any time soon.

What I really ran into is that the Euro cars typically live in HOA neighborhoods and they do not allow work to be done on a vehicle in a driveway. People are also slightly nervous about a "mobile" business. I would get calls and have sold the person on the job and they find out I am a mobile service and they would say "uhhhh, well, I will call you back..." and never do so. All in all it paid for itself (once I opened it I didn't have to spend any money from the house budget on it) but I have not cut a paycheck to myself yet. Good online rep and some more tools is what I have to show for this year. Next year will be better with a fixed location.