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Scrap Metal Business 

You too can break  into the scrap metal business on a shoestring and turn someone else’s junk into gold.  Start out by becoming a “local junk dealer” of scrap metal.   All you actually need to get started is a couple of empty boxes and either a pickup truck or a station wagon.   Any scrap metal that you’d find is worth money these days.  Scrap metal, aluminum, and copper can all earn you money.
Check with local machine shops, plumbers, electricians, roofers, and building contractors.  And be sure and check in the neighborhood trash containers and service stations.  It’s a good idea to contract with these sources to remove their metal on a regular basis - most of them will just give it to you, it saves them hauling it away.  Sort out the metal according to type - copper, steel, iron, tin, brass, aluminum, etc.  Separated, it is worth $30 a ton more.  Your next step is to search the yellow pages for scrap metal processors - they are anxious to purchase all the scrap that you can provide at the going rates.

Check your daily newspapers to keep in touch with metal prices.  Also subscribe to the “AMERICAN METAL MARKET”, “IRON AGE”, AND “FIBER MARKET NEWS”.  Put up signs in laundromate and bulletin boards all over town.  Distribute flyers house-to-house.

Let people know that you are in business of “recycling” scrap metals - most folks will give you what they have free.  You can even establish your own “recycling center,” providing separate bins for each metal.  People are super ecology-minded these days and will gladly bring it to you  Newspaper is worth about $50 per ton, cardboard $40 a ton, and old telephone books bring about $150 a ton.

Contact businesses and pick up their paper on a regular basis.  Hundred of fortunes have been build in exactly this way - simple, low-investment beginnings.  Perhaps 9 out of 10 giants of the industry started in exactly this way, and so can you.  After you’ve gotten your feet wet, jump into the big time, the “junk automobile” business.

This is the best source of scrap metals.  It requires a pretty good investment for equipment, such as tow truck, mobile crusher, and a yard to store cars to do the crushing.  To begin, rent the yard, purchase a used tow truck and crusher, and contact your County Clerk for insurance and licensing requirements.  Tow in wrecked and abandoned cars, buy old cars for say $25 each and strip them for usable parts - then crush them for scrap.  Body shops, garages, and service stations are prime markets for used and reconditioned parts of all types.  You still sell the scrap metal to processors or even brokers.  Here are several publications you should consider to help you get started in this highly profitable business:

AMERICAN METAL MARKETS, 7 E. 12TH ST., NEW YORK, NY  10003;

SCRAP AGE, 6311 GROSS PT. RD., NILES, IL  60648;

INSTITUTE OF SCRAP, 1729 H ST., WASHINGTON, DC  20006;

ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY MATERIAL, 330 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK, NY are prime markets for used and reconditioned parts of all types.  You still sell the scrap metal to processors in your area.

Act as a “Finder” - a person who gets a cash fee from the seller and buyer.  Example:  Suppose you read in the newspapers, or hear about a person who has a million dollar building to sell and you just happen to know of another person who might be interested in this kind of real estate.  You then merely contact the seller, tell him you have a potential buyer whom you will introduce to him if the seller will pay you a 2% commission fee.

If he agrees, you introduce the prospective buyer to him - then, if the buyer and seller get together on a deal, you will neatly EARN a $20,000 commission (2% of the selling price).  The introduction can be made in person or by mail.  And it is possible for you to find hundreds of these opportunities by checking the classified section of the major business papers and local papers.

 Buying Surplus Items

FOR 2 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR

 Are you looking to purchase a new car, truck, boat or other goods sold by the U.S. Government at cheap, giveaway prices?

By buying direct from the U.S. Government  auctions it is often possible to buy jeeps for as low as $62.  Trucks (originally costing $10,000) for only $400.  Thousands of other surplus items are available to be sold or auctioned, such as typewriters, guns, household and commercial furnishing, machinery, etc.  Both new and used merchandise is sold to the general public each year - millions of dollars worth.

Get a free periodical and bidders application form:  DOD Surplus, PO Box 1370, Battle Creek, MI  49016.
and start purchasing surplus goods directly from the US Government

 Bible Confession of a Killer

According to a recent article

convicted killer Garry John Mills, senteced to 10 years in prison for the death of his wife, recently confessed and lead police to the shallow grave where his wife was buried, after reading a Christian Bible in prison.  Mills, has been incarcerated about 3 year on his 10 years sentence when he decided after reading the bible that he would confess his deed.

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Stop paying property taxes

The way to do this is to sign over the title of your home to your non-profit organization that you form.  You can form your own church or organization and apply for the tax-exempt status at your county courthouse.

Or, you can sign over the title of your home to your local church or other non-profit organization if you do not wish for it to go to your heirs.  Under this arrangement, you retain lifetime habitation rights although the property belongs to the local non-profit organization.

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