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My brother just called me, it’s rarely a good sign, usually it’s because some family member is in the hospital or just passed away. We’re in family related contact almost daily, through my wife’s Facebook participation, but he rarely use the phone to call me. Well it was bad news of a sort, no one is ill or died, but still, my life has been thrown into a swirling mass.
Growing up, my father was a very successful businessman, running a coal/oil business, trucking firm, gas stations, furniture stores, liquor stores and apartment buildings, he suddenly died when I was 5 yrs old. My mother was never left wanting, over the yrs, the businesses were sold off one at a times, by the time I left high school, it was all gone, except for the very large 4 story warehouse. This morning, my brother, successfully ended negotiations to sell the warehouse and property to a developer, so I have roughly 90 days to empty out my part of what’s left of the warehouse inventory.
I have 2 lathes, 3 milling machines, drill presses, a gaggle of surface grinders (one functional, 4 or 5 for spare parts), canoes, a pop-up tent camper, multiple cars, pickup truck, engines, transmissions, hand tools, chainsaws, etc, etc, etc. all of this stuff now have to find new homes. Some of this stuff, I have not seen or touched in many years. I will have to call about a scrap dumpster in the morning and see if I can find some new storage arrangements for a few of the pieces I want to keep. The vast majority of the stuff has little or no real value to me, it was I was either too lazy or lacked serious motivation to throw it away or get rid of it.
Apparently, I’m basically the last to know, everyone else, who had/has stuff in the warehouse, has either removed it or has already started to clean it out. My brother, unsure the sale was going through, didn’t want to bother me with the minor details until the sale was actually agreed on.
A couple of items, I intend to sell and have prospective buyers for, are a couple of complete 50s era Gilbarco gas pumps, a few Flying A gas station signs and a couple of cigar store Indians. The only bad part of the sale is, I traded any financial interest in the warehouse away for some land and a camp in the Adirondack Mt, years ago, but stored stuff for free for years, now it’s going to cost me.
Growing up, my father was a very successful businessman, running a coal/oil business, trucking firm, gas stations, furniture stores, liquor stores and apartment buildings, he suddenly died when I was 5 yrs old. My mother was never left wanting, over the yrs, the businesses were sold off one at a times, by the time I left high school, it was all gone, except for the very large 4 story warehouse. This morning, my brother, successfully ended negotiations to sell the warehouse and property to a developer, so I have roughly 90 days to empty out my part of what’s left of the warehouse inventory.
I have 2 lathes, 3 milling machines, drill presses, a gaggle of surface grinders (one functional, 4 or 5 for spare parts), canoes, a pop-up tent camper, multiple cars, pickup truck, engines, transmissions, hand tools, chainsaws, etc, etc, etc. all of this stuff now have to find new homes. Some of this stuff, I have not seen or touched in many years. I will have to call about a scrap dumpster in the morning and see if I can find some new storage arrangements for a few of the pieces I want to keep. The vast majority of the stuff has little or no real value to me, it was I was either too lazy or lacked serious motivation to throw it away or get rid of it.
Apparently, I’m basically the last to know, everyone else, who had/has stuff in the warehouse, has either removed it or has already started to clean it out. My brother, unsure the sale was going through, didn’t want to bother me with the minor details until the sale was actually agreed on.
A couple of items, I intend to sell and have prospective buyers for, are a couple of complete 50s era Gilbarco gas pumps, a few Flying A gas station signs and a couple of cigar store Indians. The only bad part of the sale is, I traded any financial interest in the warehouse away for some land and a camp in the Adirondack Mt, years ago, but stored stuff for free for years, now it’s going to cost me.
