Same Old...New Name

LNG24

Hi All,
I wanted to freshin up thing and decided to update my name to reflect my company as opposed to what I use to do.

So the new LNG24 is the old Digger1799.

Larry

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Lng makes a far better logo!
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LNG24

Thanks, I designed that when I was 17.......26 years ago

LNG24

Since I have been asked, I'll tell.

Question was: Realtor, GC, Handyman? Does not compute. This is how it started.

I was an Award Winning Cabinet Maker IN High School. I was selling my work by the time I was a Senior. Actually spent most of my Wood shop & Metal Shop time producing orders for customers.

Out of HS I went into the family biz, Retail. Spent 12 years working my way up the ranks, then cracked. Needed to work with my hands again, but not yet. In Retail Management I got int cost saving programs. One of them was by greatly reducing the amount of garbage we got rid of. Since most of the Garbage was Cardboard, I discovered that people were beginning to PAY for this stuff (The early days of Recycling) I left and nd began my new (and short lived) career of Collecting Cardboard and reselling it on the Commodities Market. Short lived, because the business took off. I quickly grew to 200+ customers. I began BUYING cardboard from supermarkets as they were pre bailing it for me. Baled Cardboard = More Money

It didn't take long for the "Garbage Companies" to wonder why so many commercial customers had put in requests to REDUCE their dumpster sizes, thus reducing their bill. I soon ended up in the middle of a "Situation" Pulled into the recycling yard one day to dump my load of cardboard and collect my check. Instead I was ushered out of my vehicle and into an office by 4 "guys". I actually thought that was it. Instead I was made an offer a Guy Can't refuse. Move my operation to one of their competitors locations. A competitor that was not "Family" Well that was my ticket out the door back to my truck instead of out the door and to a dumpster. So I took it, Kind of. No way I was giving up 200 accounts and all the cash I was bringing in.

I made some calls. Not all of my customers were Mom and Pop. A couple of restaurants were 'Family" I got protection and went back to work collecting my cardboard. I simply changed who I was selling it to. Now I was being followed. I ran my product to the new recycling facility in the wee hours of the morning. The guys watching me simple saw me dump in a yard and the next morning it was ALL GONE. Pissed them off for sure! Hours got long and work was getting risky. They were making presence known. I was about to give up when out of the blue I was made an offer I truly could not pass up. I was Bought Out! Another "Family" wanted in and took my operation as the ticket. I was finally out.

Having been a carpenter, cabinet maker etc, I was now enjoying the experience of all the heavy equipment I was around. I decided Excavating was my next ticket. I took my buyout and bought some equipment. Dump Truck, Trailer and Backhoe. Brought it home and began to practice until I knew what I was doing with it. Put up and ad and started to apply all the skills I learned working in retail. By the end of that season I was doing great. I continued to enjoy my new career. Building my one man show. Eventually I began landing some commercial jobs and then a government job. Had to hire people now. Teamed up with a friend who had even bigger equipment and hit the big jobs. Working by yourself and working with a partner are very different worlds. It didn't work out. We finished up the jobs and split ways. Shortly after that breakup, I was touring Upstate NY on my motorcycle when some minuets decided to cut across a 4 lane highway. She never saw me as she wiped me and my bike out.

3 months later, still recouping, I sold off my equipment as recover was going to be long. Once I could move around again, I joined my g/f on some showings. She is a Realtor. I enjoyed it. I had been G/c'ing, selling and installing Modular Homes. This was even easier. Instead of selling a picture, the house was already there. I headed into Manhattan, enrolled in school and became a Realtor.

4 years, the market was HOT Money was good, and my body was recovering. Then the bottom began to drop out. Things started to slow down. I began to tell people how they needed to fix this or repair that to get top dollar. They were amazed at my knowledge (if you ever dealt with a Realtor, you know what people are use to) They began asking me to Fix this and repair that. Well work was slow, I had most of the tools. I eventually picked up a trailer and traded in my Lexus for a Yukon. Overnight I was working FULL TIME repairing homes, upgrading Bathrooms and Kitchens, Renovating Basements. G/C'ing additions. (still working alone)

I eventually earned my Brokers License and Opened my own Real Estate Office where I do Property Management, Property Maintenance (Handyman Stuff) and still G/C big jobs. All this while still selling Real Estate, well, my agents mostly sell now, I just supervise them.

So thats how I became a GC, Handyman, Realtor.

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