Late Night Real Estate: A Gas Station in Evansville, Indiana
eBay is a digital wild west! It’s the by-your-bootstraps place where your uncle sells gold coins and people sell the sort of carefully documented vintage that’s divorced from the necessity of an Instagram photoshoot. It is a place for no-nonsense dreamers, which makes it the perfect environment for finding the right kind of person to take over your convenience store.
Such is the case with this Evansville, Indiana, convenience store and gas station, which can be yours for what seems like the fair price—I’m not sure what gas stations or anything, really, should sell for—of $139,900. The description states that “inside sales are approx $50K monthly” and “rent is $3000”. To me, this convenience store seems like a surefire moneymaker!
Other streams of revenue include lottery tickets ($800 a month), car wash ($600), and assorted money services such as an ATM, money transfer, etc, that add an addition $1500-$2000 per month. But those are the nuts and bolts—the sentence that really jumped out to me is that there is, apparently, “plenty of room to add additional fast food items”!!! This means that you have a little fun and do some R&D to see what à-la-carte fast food offerings your customers desire.
However, an important asterisk is that the inventory (aka the Lays, Domino sugar, Clorox, ramen, Orbit gum, Twix, Marlboros, Cokes) you see in the photos will be an additional $50,000. Evansville, your new home, is the third-largest city in Indiana, and randomly, was voted in 2008 the best city in the country “to live, work, and play” by the readers of Kiplingers.
Since right after the Civil War, when steamboats would stop in Evansville and it became a major port for river trading, the city’s been a hub of Midwestern industry. In the ‘90s, the manufacturing hub of the tri-state region was bolstered by the arrival of the Toyota and AK Steel plants, and most excitingly, the Tropicana Evansville, the state’s first casino with an interior described as “purely Las Vegas glamour”.
Two Hollywood moments of note: 1. All exterior shots from the original Roseanne are photos taken in Evansville. 2. A League of Their Own’s game scenes were filmed at Evansville’s historic Bosse Field.
Read the eBay listing here!
All images courtesy of eBay.
February 19, 2019
In "Features"
