1st Portable Extractor - Buying Decisions

maxima,

Sounds like you will not be doing the cleaning yourself and will be relying on employees.

BE PREPARED

Suggest you keep it simple.

Sounds like you are attempting to get as close to a truckmount as possible at portable pricing. When firing up these overpowered monsters you will experience fuse blowing problems, awkward and heavy equipment for one operator. More to think about and more to go wrong.

If you already have a handle on 125 restaurants you already have the nucleus of a good business. The extra money you will be spending on labour and chemicals will more than offset the extra for a truckmount.

Go for the Mona Lisa, you will not be disappointed.

And don’t buy propane! Stay away from dangerous open flames. I am sure your insurance agent will agree.

Restaurants and truckmounts are like bacon & eggs they go together.

P.S.
If you are a restaurant manager and must stay after your already long shift for security reasons what would you choose:

A 2 hour truckmount job or a four hour porty job? The choice is very clear for most managers and if they are already being cleaned by a truckmount it will be hard to knock them out.

Disposable income to invest into the carpet cleaning business if I decide the ROI is comparable to the other industries I'm associated with. 

You misconstrued my comment, I'm not concerned about breaking equipment,  But did You know there is such a thing as wear and tear?

My concern isnt the making money part, my concern is the ROI, There is a difference.

I have a handful of other ventures to re-invest into, I decifering which will make a quicker return.

I hear about these 80K carpet cleaning trucks, Just curious, how many miles actually get put on the truck before You break even? Yeah You might make 80K to pay off the truck, But then will it be time to replace the truck or buy a new engine for it.....Thats a lot of riding around, 80K worth of carpet cleaning......

maxima wrote: Thats no Problem what so ever! My thinking about the business now is the R.O.I. , How soon can a new cleaner expect to gain return on the equipment alone. Lets think about it how may carpets would You have to clean to pay off machinery ranging from $5-9K Thats a lots of dirty carpets And then at that break even point is the equipment still in good enough condition to keep on going??? Someone please reason with me or help me talk this out, I need to see some realistic numbers here because just beginning this can be discouraging.

 

You need to go and get more training in buisness management. If you are so worried about breaking things and if you will make any money you are starting off with the wrong frame of mind. 

 Go do something else like in a factory where you won't hurt yourself or someone else. 

IF you can't take risks in life go work a a dounut shop and serve coffee

 

You got it!

 

this is a picture of me im 5'7 205 lbs

Gully - Tough , rugged, street level, gangsta, If it aint gully it aint right.

You really want HEAT. Part of the cleaning pie.

Did you look for a spitfire 3.2.?? I almost bought one of them.

New I believe they were 12,995.00, too much for a small TM.