>>20922319Damn, got a lightbulb popping up thanks to you!.
A friend of mine is on the verge of financial ruin. He's a great guy who owns a company (it's him and a partner) of tuning and repairing old chord pianos. Most his customers are quite old, bourgeois and are regulars.
His problem is a kind of nightmarish version of what we are entertaining. Over the years, he got the opportunity to purchase a lot of pianos from boomers/their heir for pennies on the dollar, he took few loans to do so. And we are talking good stuff here.
Thing is,... nobody gives a shit about playing piano anymore in dumb-o-world, the market is getting clogged big time with ancient, expensive pianos from dead boomies. But catalogues' estimations in this tiny world are slow to react, they still display decade old buyback prices.
It bite my friend hard. Not only he got stuck with pianos tagged for a fortune on catalogues but nobody wants irl, but he got to pay monthly storage fees in a pretty large space, got to upkeep said pianos because it hates humidity and not being played on, on top of paying back the loans he compulsed (it's not super large figures, but still, it's very stressful to him).
I will try to meet up with him this week and ask him if we could link up, he might become my ears and be my connexion/bridge to the local boomie-bourgeois planet. No idea how we could proceed or if it could end up to something, but if i can help him to keep his head above water by adding few bux here and there, even just a bit, that'd be great, he really is a great dude who don't deserve the mess he is in.
