techinspector1-My father-inlaw just put up a heated garage with a lift in it. He is an amish taxi driver and needs constant work on his vans. I have done alot of work on the vans for him in exchange for lift time. This was one of the reasons i decided to go ahead and start the project now, previously it would have been to difficult to do such a huge undertaking without it. I'm a toolmaker who got my start in a fabrication shop, steel and welding is not an issue. My brother-inlaw works at a body shop less than a mile away and is alway willing to give an extra hand. As far as money it seems like what ever i get into there is going to be some cost involved and i do not want to buy someone elses problem child and have to put a bunch of money in it on top of the purchase price. So i know that whatever i spend will be more than i wanted to.