#230
Will - 3/28/2008 10:13 AM
Brian - I did think about the insurance liability issues. I’ll have to look more into it, but I figured why put the cart before the horse? I need to find out how and where I can get training before I worry about the cost of insuring myself. I would, of course, insure myself against liability and most likely do any repairs under an LLC. Figuring out how much it would cost to do the repairs and cover the overhead is something I’m putting off till after I find out if it’s feasable....however...I can’t see myself with no real retail location expenses, no payroll, and the ability to determine my own profit margin not being able to at least equal the price of the local dive shops.

I’m not looking to do this because the local shops charge too much, I’m more looking to do it to reduce the time to repair. I’ve even considered instead of going it alone, offering my services to a local shop in exchange for $$ off of trips or other such "barter" type of systems. There are alot of other factors I will need to consider, I do know this, I just need to get a horse and a cart before I worry which one to put first. :-) And honestly I was thinking if I could get enough experience...someday I could move to a dive island (like Bonaire) and have a trade that could keep me in the water when I’m not in the workshop. Pipe dream, perhaps, but if one never dreams then one is a rather boring person. :-)