[Rick Lee]

The daughter of a local customer called me last night. She lives in SoCal, where I'm not licensed, wanted to run her deal by me. I was able to beat it by about $40/mo. She was stunned. But then she told me she did four yrs in the joint for a double stabbing (bar fight). She has since found the Lord and has kept her nose clean. No prob. It was over five yrs ago and she's not on parole or probation anymore. Whew! This one is big enough to warrant getting my non-resident license for CA and I might consider riding my bike out to her for signatures and to see some SoCal buddies this weekend. And as long as I have a CA license, I'd consider buying some aged leads in the middle of nowhere and working them, since those areas are probably totally underserved. Only catch is that I don't speak enough Spanish to get by in some of those areas. But I know it's a gold mine out there.