Talk about the thread that just wont die...
Thanks guys, I never would have dug this one up. The old flipper, is just doing what he knows... I hope I'm as full of piss and vinegar in a couple decades. As much as I cant stand flippers, I respect that is all some guys have done or know how to be. I really cant stand the wannabe flippers... WTF are they thinking... oh yeah... TV.
Someday this poor Newport will find a home that loves it... at least they seem to think its too valuable to sleep outside.
One flipper I worked with thought everything was negotiable... he tried so hard to keep his used cars away from me in that dealership. For the 6 months or so he was there as the sales manager, he would buy the sorriest cheap cars at auction he could get a deal on, then forge the certified used car paperwork. Almost every day I would get asked to come fail one of his cars. I failed two truck loads he bought from auction one time. Any structural repairs failed... and all he bought was new, low mile wrecks made pretty. He really tried to have his way with the young guys in the shop, he finally settled on having his own used car department in service so he could press those idiots into his halfassed BS, after we threatened to rat him out for forging the paperwork.
Most of us hated working there, but couldn't easily leave for one reason or another. The only reason that dealer didn't get shut down was a political misstep by the manufacturer who needed the owner to stay in business.
My reason... shoulder surgery... took about a year to get it approved by insurance. Then I had to wait it out until I felt sure I could go elsewhere and not smack into the pre-existing condition issue.
