I bought a Chevy Silverado HD Full-Size truck because I do renovation work on the weekends.  Hauling materials, furniture and appliances.  With my brother we hope to go full time with that when the economy picks up again.  But with vehicles you think of them as depreciating assets — worth less next year.

That’s still true, but here’s a situation where that truck helps me make more money today.  And because it is valuable, it’s turned into a source of loans to help me earn more.

As it turns out, every natural disaster generates work.  After fires, earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes, there’s clean up work to be done and not all if it directly by FEMA (or any of it?).  Well, I don’t wish for disasters anywhere, but crap happens.  The work has to get done and the pay is very good.  Almost three times  what I make in my regular job.  But I needed enough money to cover household expenses for a few months because the payments would not reach my level (I’m a sub to a sub) for about six or eight weeks.  

My track record with businesses is a little spotty.  A few years ago a contracting business I started lost money, and with that I got a bad credit rating.  

The question is, what would we do while waiting for the pay from the recovery work? I’m the lowest on the food chain and therefore the last to get paid, AFTER the insurance claims are settled.  So there would be a lag time of six or eight weeks before the checks come.

How would my wife and me pay our bills over that time?  There is the rent, truck payments, health insurance, food and old debt. What I needed is fast cash.

The answer was Las Vegas Car Title Loans.  They have an online application that takes about 15 minutes.  The result is fast cash, money when you need it — by the next working day in fact.  My wife questioned buying that truck at first – especially with gas prices going where they are going. Turns out, that truck is doing double duty for me because of Vegas auto title loans.