Tristan's New Escapade

  Hello again. Within the month, I have acquired 2 lawn mowers to fix up and sell. It's been good so far I didn't need a lot of work as I basically changed oil from 2 mowers and a few bits and bobs that I've replaced as well as degreasing them and then wash them when they're ready to be put on sale on the Facebook Marketplace. Although I don't know much about lawn mower as opposed to cars, I have learnt new things. I'm increasingly aware of how popular brands of lawn mowers are and how easy or hard it is to access spare parts. That can determine how much I can sell them for as well as when a time comes to buy another lawn mower to be mindful on how cheap I'll be willing to pay. So now, I'll show you the mowers. First up is this Cheetah lawn mower which I bought from Carnegie. The seller mentioned they couldn't get it started but eventually, I got it running. I have spent $50 AUD buying this mower and the things I've replaced is the spark plug, th...

  Hello again. We're now in October and it's been 10 months since I've moved to Pakenham and in the process of building up some money. There is a new idea on one Saturday when I was working at the Cranbourne Repco store after a text message from my dad suggesting I should work on lawn mowers as projects. Although it'll be a similar idea as with cars buying to fix up then selling them, I thought it'll be a bad idea. It'll be easier as lawn mowers are way cheaper to buy and easier to work on and especially that I haven't reached my goal amount to start my new hobby yet, that'll be a why not moment. So anyway, I went onto it. I've been looking at lawn mowers for sale on the internet to get a good idea in terms of pricing. I've had good discussions with my colleagues at Cranbourne as well as Cody who I work with at the Doveton store and Mark who used to work at Repco. Mark pointed out lawn mowers aren't used at much compared to cars. And as newer...