Friday, September 09, 2005

To Rent or Not to Rant

Wake up to your own personal power, people. Parking spaces are gold in this city of green. If you own or rent a parking space your value just rose 25,000 a year! While I shudder to think of the parking tickets accumulating on my dash, I have to consider the earning potential of the space I leave my car in every night. While negotiating your next wage increase or promotion, add free parking to the ticket and see what kind of leverage it gets you. Park in someone else's spot for a night and wait for the nasty notes, whether the owner uses it or not.
Bring in a truckload of asphalt and get rid of that irritating lawn, raze that garage and you've got room for three cars, pull down the front porch and you can fit two more. Parking problem? This city? With all those green spaces? Who needs it. My own haphazard guess means that another fifteen thousand cars could park downtown and still relieve the congestion caused by that guy who leaves his car on the street during rush hour. That house you're looking at in the Golden Triangle can make you all the extra income you need.
Here's the plan. Calculate how much time and effort it will take to park on the street, tickets and all and then look at the money you could be making for that parking space that sits empty every day while you go to work. A trip outside to move the car every hour or even every two hours (to keep yourself out of the city's bad books) could net you a kick ass home theatre system or a modest home renovation or a breast augmentation operation.
Parking problem, my ass. This city simply has an entrepreneurial problem.

Mmmm, too much coffee again. Coffee? Don't get me started on the coffee problem. I was in dire need yesterday and do you know how much....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It wasn't the coffee that you needed yesterday. Rant, rant....