NickfromWI
King of Splices
The most exciting news!!!
So TreeCareLA has been in business for going on 6 years. We run a 4-5 man crew out of a 2 car garage. All our equipment is packed against the wall because we keep 2 cars in there every day. Chipper truck, pick up and employee cars get parked in the street in front of my neighbors' home each day
So for the past 2-3 years I have been putting increasingly more and more time looking for a place to be the TreeCareLA HQ. Really all we need is a plot of land maybe 60x60 (80x80 preferred) and I'd drop a shipping container for equipment storage and then build a huge fence.
It was a nightmare. I followed leads on hundreds of properties. I learned a lot about commercial real estate. I learned that banks don't loan money to small business for them to buy real estate. I learned that people in LA hold properties and want them vacant for future fat sales to developers. I learned that most of LA is off limits because of zoning requirements.
Well last Friday I found a place. A warehouse next door to the green waste center we go to almost every day. Did some research to find the owner and it turned out the guy that owns it has been my go-to mechanic for about 8 years now. We talk business all the time. He knows me by name - which is saying a lot in LA.
I called him up and asked. He said sure- let's take a look. We talked logistics and monthly prices. We did the thing where we both write a price down on a sheet of paper then we switched. There was a $1,000 difference so we met in the middle.
He gave me the key on the spot. We move in on the first.
Gentlemen I present to you the soon to be new TreeCareLA HQ. If you need to find us, we'll be on Florence next to the dump!
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So TreeCareLA has been in business for going on 6 years. We run a 4-5 man crew out of a 2 car garage. All our equipment is packed against the wall because we keep 2 cars in there every day. Chipper truck, pick up and employee cars get parked in the street in front of my neighbors' home each day
So for the past 2-3 years I have been putting increasingly more and more time looking for a place to be the TreeCareLA HQ. Really all we need is a plot of land maybe 60x60 (80x80 preferred) and I'd drop a shipping container for equipment storage and then build a huge fence.
It was a nightmare. I followed leads on hundreds of properties. I learned a lot about commercial real estate. I learned that banks don't loan money to small business for them to buy real estate. I learned that people in LA hold properties and want them vacant for future fat sales to developers. I learned that most of LA is off limits because of zoning requirements.
Well last Friday I found a place. A warehouse next door to the green waste center we go to almost every day. Did some research to find the owner and it turned out the guy that owns it has been my go-to mechanic for about 8 years now. We talk business all the time. He knows me by name - which is saying a lot in LA.
I called him up and asked. He said sure- let's take a look. We talked logistics and monthly prices. We did the thing where we both write a price down on a sheet of paper then we switched. There was a $1,000 difference so we met in the middle.
He gave me the key on the spot. We move in on the first.
Gentlemen I present to you the soon to be new TreeCareLA HQ. If you need to find us, we'll be on Florence next to the dump!
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