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Jeremy
05-17-2014, 06:18 AM
I'm interested in starting up an alley in Canada. What's your average monthly cost (wages, utilities.. etc.)? And what's the market like, have you seen sales drop or rise in recent years? Although I'm likely to get US numbers on here they are still helpful. Any tips for a new owner as well?

striker12
05-17-2014, 09:33 AM
hey jeremy i dont own a bowling alley but i know a bowling alley i could get for a really cheap price because its a dump the bowling alley has not had anything done to it in over 50 years and i already seen alot of health violation in the building so im just gooing threw some legal papers to see what all i can do and also trying to find out how much it would cost me to repair everything.

Jeremy
05-17-2014, 10:41 PM
Hmm how many lanes and do you have pictures around? Feel free to PM me!

striker12
05-18-2014, 02:17 AM
it has 24 10 pin lanes and 8 or 10 5 pin lanes and I don't want to take a picture of the place my camera might break I can show you a picture of my bowling ball and 1 throw down the lane but I have already had 5 pother bowling balls apart from that one repaired because the other one would cost more to repair it then buying a new ball

Jeremy
05-18-2014, 05:16 PM
Sure send me the pictures. Is the place still functional? And you said it's for sale?

striker12
05-18-2014, 07:34 PM
not sure if its for sale but when I aend a health rep in it would be the walls are all full of mold and aspectice and just finished rounding the numbers on what it would cost to fix and I can build a 100 lane bowling alley cheaper.

but to get that loan from the bank is a 1/1000000000 chance

Jeremy
05-19-2014, 12:08 AM
Sounds to me like it's not a good idea to mess around with it haha. Also sounds to me like you don't know what a loan is:p

striker12
05-19-2014, 10:21 AM
I know what a loan is but its hard to get a 20-40 million dollar loan from the bank unless you make some big money banks looks at this type of stuff but I could easslyer go and ask the richest people here in are home town because I know them

Mudpuppy
05-19-2014, 11:06 AM
I suggest starting off with some street level gambling to fund your new alley. Some shell games, 3 card monty and dice, of course. Your best bang for the buck is to hit the most urbanized portions of the city - you can find these in most large cities and you can tell you are in the right spot when you see a liquor store, pawn shop and gun store on every corner. Usually there are billboards such as 1-800-I-SUE-BIG or something of that nature. Windows are optional and burnt down is a form of architecture. I would recommend to carry a heater - preferably with no serial numbers and wearing kevlar. 5-6 years of this you can build up to enough money to fund a hot dog stand in a slightly more affluent portion of the city. Within 20-25 years you will achieve your dream of owning a bowling alley.

striker12
05-19-2014, 01:38 PM
I already got a hotdog stand a friend of my dads wife passed away from cancer and he was selling 2 hot dog stands and more to go back to Poland so I got 1 of the hotdog stands for my self and the other is at my dads shops to different sides of town.

but thing about that little gambling thing no where here in Kingston to do that the city owns every bit on land and they keep building crap hole building like the new hockey arena no parking so we have to pay $25 for parking for 1 game or we get a $100 ticket its BS so I have made the complaints about the parking around the hockey arena when there is game nights that it should be free but everyone in the government in Canada are all tree huggers

Mudpuppy
05-19-2014, 03:57 PM
I already got a hotdog stand a friend of my dads wife passed away from cancer and he was selling 2 hot dog stands and more to go back to Poland so I got 1 of the hotdog stands for my self and the other is at my dads shops to different sides of town.

but thing about that little gambling thing no where here in Kingston to do that the city owns every bit on land and they keep building crap hole building like the new hockey arena no parking so we have to pay $25 for parking for 1 game or we get a $100 ticket its BS so I have made the complaints about the parking around the hockey arena when there is game nights that it should be free but everyone in the government in Canada are all tree huggers

lol - I was just joking about the gambling.

MICHAEL
05-19-2014, 05:50 PM
I know sort-of-goofy!! LOL But I do own it!


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Jeremy
05-20-2014, 12:05 AM
Hahahah, this thread is a bust.. But I had a laugh. Why in the world would you want a 20-40 million dollar loan striker? You know you have to pay that back with interest? (Not that any bank in their right mind would hand out a loan when you can build a new one for a huge fraction of that..) I'm not sure how old you are or if you're trolling but damn. Haha, I am interested to see these pictures though.

striker12
05-20-2014, 08:14 AM
Hahahah, this thread is a bust.. But I had a laugh. Why in the world would you want a 20-40 million dollar loan striker? You know you have to pay that back with interest? (Not that any bank in their right mind would hand out a loan when you can build a new one for a huge fraction of that..) I'm not sure how old you are or if you're trolling but damn. Haha, I am interested to see these pictures though.

yeah but my bowling alley I was thinking of building is not just going to be your regular bowling alley it will have the 60 lanes for league and open bowlers but it would also have on the other side of the building more bowling alleys for practice and personal usage and also for a proshop to use so a proshop dose not need to use any of the other lanes for open bowlers.

but to find the area to put this huge bowling alley will be abit of a troubling issue because of cloverleaf being so close to down town.


maby iceman can make me a ice pad above the ice to put the bowling alley onto of that lol.

striker12
05-20-2014, 09:34 AM
my dada just gave me a call on his way to work he was walking past cloverleaf and there where ambulances cops and crime unites there they had the tap up around the building im just looking all over facebook because I know a few news people to see if they say anything.