S02.E01: Athans Motors

[Sarah D. Bunting]

"The Season 2 premiere follows an attempt to save a high-end used-car dealership owned by a former real-estate investor, who sunk his life savings into the endeavor."

[clod]

Was Marcus going to pay off the losses that the owner had incurred by running the business for several years?  Treating it as a normal debt?   Why should the owner get his personal injections of cash paid back?     Paying off debts to banks and such allows the business to continue.

[Irina Palm]

This guy had a nice idea but had no clue that it would never fly.  He kept on putting money in it and it seemed to get worse every time.  Marcus should not worry about the man getting his money back.  That is not for Marcus to deal with.  Marcus should focus on getting the place running properly and then, the owner could get his money back as it became available.  If he got paid, it should be LAST, not first.

[ketose]

On 6/16/2014 at 0:10 AM, Irina Palm said:

This guy had a nice idea but had no clue that it would never fly.  He kept on putting money in it and it seemed to get worse every time.  Marcus should not worry about the man getting his money back.  That is not for Marcus to deal with.  Marcus should focus on getting the place running properly and then, the owner could get his money back as it became available.  If he got paid, it should be LAST, not first.

The idea was bad because it couldn't make money. Expensive used cars are hard to sell and Pete was trying to exclusively sell an inventory of about 20 of those on what was apparently a large enough lot to hold 150 cars.