Years ago a friend and I considered buying an existing full functioning high end hobby shop in Florida, a top notch high quality home owned store. The cost was so much and the annual profit was just not worthy of the time involved. Yes, it would be fun to own a good hobby shop, but it would become a beast and possibly cause one to get sick of the hobby. We were told if we wanted to become millionaires, invest 2 million into the store and after a year, we might be worth a million. So, we decided to just enjoy this great hobby by simply building our home layouts. As an on the road Hardware salesman, (23 years with a large company) calling on many retail businesses, I saw many struggle to make so to speak “buckle and tongue meet”. Owning a retail business is a seriously large responsibility, it could be very profitable, but it would be a very up hill battle. Let’s be happy with our trains. Happy Railroading Everyone
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