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Yeah, I think if you don't have a large detached place these days, a unit is way to go !! Also stops all the pondlife banging at your door at 8pm because a sidelight bulb has blown 6 months after they bought from you I'm sure you already know this, but look at yr business plan, then double the ex's and halve the income, if it still stands up, go for it

Don’t bother. I use one personal cheque per year & that’s for my trade plates. I’ve not had a business cheque book in nearly a decade. Oh, and don’t waste your time with recorded delivery - what’s in it for the DVLA to not cash your cheque? It must just be me but I’ve no problem with the DVLA. The logbooks come through in a week & every November I send my trade plate form & chi then receive confirmation within a fortnight. 10/10 for service I reckon.

and stay down lights on the really old ones

This is amazing.

Yes

Payment can also me made by postal order. I don't think they will care where the cheque comes from BTW.

Welcome. The fundamentals are the same (buy a car and sell it) but the “game” has seemingly changed a lot from what the elder statesmen on here say. Speaking from personal experience, i’m perhaps fortunate that I didn’t experience “the good old days” and there is just “days” to me. Either way, doorstepper or unit (i’ve done the former, i’m doing the latter) you need to be switched on about digital marketing and how to sell cars on t’internet. So, that all said, if I were in your shoes and i was confident I knew what I was doing with online car sales, i’d take the doorstepper option for 6 months and keep the overheads down whilst I was getting things set up, relationships with suppliers/trades, refining adverts, working out what I was selling etc. Once I had things running in a fairly straight line and I had a little system set up i’d take on the unit and upscale the operation. Trading from home is fine, it’s doable. It’s not ideal, it needs a degree of patience, reasonable neighbours, heavy vetting of punters on the phone so you minimise the risk of a lunatic turning up on your door wanting to spend 3 hours crawling over the stock with his Halfords torch and diagnostics machine etc but it’s a perfectly acceptable starting point. I could never go back now I don’t think unless I had a detached property with land to build facilities but it gave me a chance to build what I have now and I am grateful I managed to do that.

/\ /\ /\ Ha Ha Ha I love that !! Never did that, but I did put captured Rats through a local "grasses" letterbox when they were on holiday .................. LOL, when we were 14, my first run in with law, (a caution) was me and a mate got stopped riding our motorbikes on local waste land / woods due to a local cllr. We made a huge "Biscuit Tin / Gaffer Tape Bomb" from Weedkiller and Sugar and used a firework "Banger" as a fuse ......................... Light blue touch paper, leg it, fuckin' humongous great bang, crazy paving flying through windows, next thing, because there was a younger lad with us at the time, he grassed, terrorist bomb squad turned up at our house, me and mate got hauled off and resulted in police caution ............... I shat myself at that age, it was when all the IRA stuff was going on, and said Conservative councillor had said she thought she was a target for IRA Man my old man was not best pleased either

Hammer frozen sausages into his lawn so all the local wildlife turn up and dig up his garden every night. Works every time.

/\ /\ /\ Absolutely spot on

Sorry to hear your loss. I did tell you so! Now do a formal complaint against tosspot cllr. I hate cllrs with a passion. They're clueless dicks Yes. Ignore what others have said about letting it go. This isnt the end of it. He might report you for sub letting your house hAving rubbish on your drive or even to the cops. Or even noise pollution team. From experience i know petty cllrs and complainants like yours press every button. By you reporting them they go on a vexatious list whereby their complaints may go ignored. The cllr may be doing this often and you might be the one that helps to catch him out!

Unless you home is totally private, do not have mobile mechanics coming to your home fixing your cars, you'll be asking for aggro from your neighbours.

Just remember how much you can actually earn in an hour against wasting hours of your time with complete cocks Or wasting valuable spare time you could spend with your family Jus' sayin'

It’s the rise of the practical classic mags.... turning crap into desirables .....