Wim lives in Hawaii. Expensive from the get go. And 8 grand a month, if you can get it as a piano tuner (and far from all can) at say 10 months a year is only 80,000 dollars a year. You have to buy your own medical insurance. Even low yield med guarantee insurance costs very very much. House expenses.... how much do you pay a month for buying on a 30 year loan a medium priced house in an average house market over there these days ? It all adds up very fast. What about kids... ? cloths, schools, college... Ok on a simple life setup I suppose on can get by on a shoestring.... what is that over there these days... 30 grand a year or so ? But most folks want to at least have enough money for their 1 week vacation on the beach... even if its in a WalMart 3 man non rain tight tent. Cheers RicB With due respect, perhaps someone has some high medical bills, or gambling debts, or an airplane habit. What someone spends his/her money on is a personal choice. If s/he needs to work hard to have the income necessary to pay for his/her choices, that's a lot better than what Tom Petters (local wheeler/dealer who's now in jail on Billion dollar fraud charges) did. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM, pianolover 88 <pianolover88 at hotmail.com>wrote: 20 pianos-tuning only, not including PR, regulation, repair, accessories, at an average of $100 minimum per piano, would yield $2,000, or $8,000 permonth. You must have MASSIVE expenses and/or debt if you can't get by on that. If you add all the other extras above, you could easily add another $2,000-$5000 per month.
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