This Cheap RZR 800 Runs Again After Sitting For YEARS!

[@fritztk9857]

Man, to hear that RZR start up was insane! Working in a motorcycle dealership, I’ve seen some dust buckets come back from the dead, but man this RZR surprised me quite a bit. As a side note, as you may know from my previous comments I am beginning my journey in buying, fixing, and flipping off-road vehicles/water-crafts/2-3 wheel street vehicles, etc. I was wondering if you had any tips on where I should start business wise? My ultimate goal is to own a shop where I buy machines off marketplace, Craigslist maybe, auctions, and things like that; pretty much exactly what you do. I’m hoping to be able to get something going where I can quit my 9-5 and work for myself while gaining my freedom back. I’m really tired of this job, so I’m hungry to get this going for myself. I’m just lost right now because nobody around me does this type of stuff. Even my parents don’t understand what I’m trying to do; it’s tough not having someone to mentor me or take me under their wing while I try to figure this stuff out. I’m confused as to if I should be more focused on getting all of my business stuff set up than trying to find more projects to potentially buy, fix, and sale for a profit (which is tough within itself). Like, would I have a better chance of finding a deal through the auction if I were to get a dealer’s license? I don’t have much capital to start with, so should that be the main focus from the start? Should I solely focus on parting out what I can to create the capital for this business venture as apposed to trying to fix stuff and learn in the process? It’s so many questions lol. My main thing is finding something that could bring in income while I try to get this business rolling. I don’t get paid well at my current job, so I try to put aside as much as I can but that’s not always easy. Would you suggest to just keep saving what I can, buy projects as they appear that I can get for a good deal and make a good profit on, and keep scaling as time goes on to later in the future deal with starting a full-on business? - OR - Should I be more focused on the business side. Like getting my dealer’s license (which in return would give me dealer-only auction access where I could buy the machines wholesale), establish a name, someday secure a shop to operate out of, and the other legal things? I hope that I don’t ask too many questions in your comment section; I really don’t have anyone that is doing this business model around me that I can talk to and ask. Even the technicians that I know aren’t willing to help me either because they kinda dabble in flipping or they aren’t set up as a legitimized business but they’re keeping the cash flowing, if you know where I’m coming from lol.

[@TheATVHustle]

I know right, this is probably the biggest project I have taken on so far aside from the ranger 800 earlier this year that I did a harness and front diff plus some other small things. It’s probably going to take a few comments to answer all your questions since I can’t see it all. I failed 3 years of high school English so I’ll do my best to make sense 😂

[@TheATVHustle]

So it sounds like you’re exactly in the same spot. I was when I started. I was very hesitant to actually get out and start spend a bunch of time looking at street bikes online for personal use and started to notice that there was a lot of good deals on there and I could make money on them. Then I ran across. It was a Kawasaki zephyr or something like that. I bought it for $100 and still sold it for 500. And just kind of kept doing the same thing from there. I had no idea of anything about business. I thought getting the auction license was going to do real big and make me grow so fast and then when I finally got one and I could see what the stuff actually sold at those auctions it was so much money. It wasn’t even worthwhile. There sites out there that are free that you may end up paying a buyers premium on the item like hibid.com proxybid.com equipmentfacts.com that you can buy right now from but honestly, I never find the best deals at auction. It’s rare.

[@TheATVHustle]

As far as business licensing, and all of that goes, it’s going to be very dependent on your state. Down where I am passport vehicles like ATVs side-by-side and stuff like that didn’t even used to be titled where I think states like California if you don’t have a title it’s useless. I’m not a lawyer or anything like that so I can’t really give you a whole Lotta insight there.

[@TheATVHustle]

When I first quit my job the first time to go full-time doing this (I failed and had to go back due to poor money management) I was at a family gathering and my uncle just kinda calls me out and he’s like so I heard you quit your job real loud in front of everybody before anyone knew I quit. Most of the people in my family have always been like why don’t you just go back and get a day job? I Don’t listen to nobody and that’s pretty much how it has to be since people who are 9 to 5 guys will always think it’s better to have a J O B. I would really suggest listening to the MFCEO podcast from Andy Frisella it has helped me with that and a whole Lotta other stuff.

[@TheATVHustle]

The best way to put it is just start whether you go out and buy $100 bike sell some parts off of it make five or $600 and then keep reinvesting that into your business and yourself. That’s pretty much what I did. Just $100 bill. I would be a lot further along if I had better money management skills, and I didn’t make so many mistakes along the way outside of the actual business.