<div dir="ltr">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. <div> <br></div><div>Paul Bruesch</div><div>Stillwater, MN<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM, pianolover 88 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pianolover88@hotmail.com">pianolover88@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div> 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 per month. 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.<br> <br><br>Terry Peterson<br><br>> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:42:59 +0800<br>> Subject: Re: the economy<br>> From: <a href="mailto:justpianos@our.net.au" target="_blank">justpianos@our.net.au</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br> > <br>> wim<br>> > HAVE to tune 15 - 20 piano a week, in order to make a<br>> > living. The bad news is,?I am only tuning 10 - 15 piano a week.><br>> <br>> <br>> With respect,what do you charge, and what are your high expenses that you<br> > can't get by on 15 tunings a week?<br>> I would be looking again at my business plan.<br>> Bruce Browning<br>> The Piano Tuner.<br>> <br>> <br><br><hr>See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go. <a href="http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/" target="_blank">See Now</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div>