<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=MailContainerBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 name="Compose message area" CanvasTabStop="true"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wim,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is avoiding your question, but, if you've brought home 65K in your first year in Hawaii, you must indeed know something about the Business of Piano Tuning. Not bad. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fenton</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com href="mailto:AlliedPianoCraft@hotmail.com">AlliedPianoCraft</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:45 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: income per mile</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Win, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I wouldn't know how to calculate that, since my shop income is 3 to 4 time more than my tuning income (work in homes). Is that income just tunings and work in homes or are you adding in your shop work also?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al Guecia</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title="mailto:wimblees@aol.com
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:wimblees@aol.com">Willem Blees</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:26 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title="mailto:Pianotech@ptg.org
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:Pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> income per mile</DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><WBR>Since I moved to Hawaii a year ago I've put on 16,750 miles in my car. That's a lot of driving around this little island. About 85% of this is for business purposes. During this time I've brought in about $65,180. That comes to $4.86 of income per mile driven. I've never thought about this until today, but I wonder how I compare with some of you? This is gross income and it includes in home tuning and repairs, and shop work, like action regulation and repairs. No rebuilding.  <BR><BR> <DIV style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT<BR>Piano Tuner/Technician<BR>Honolulu, HI<BR>808-349-2943<BR>www.bleespiano.com<BR>Author of <BR>The Business of Piano Tuning<BR>available from Potter Press<BR>www.pianotuning.com</DIV> <DIV class=aol_ad_footer id=u8CABA829C9482E2-E78-39C><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> The Famous, the Infamous, the Lame - in your browser. <A title="http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014
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