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Gordon Heikka offers Beaver Island rental-car business for sale, 2017

Also Gordon's Auto Clinic rental car business sale 2017

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TypeEvent
Date2017-01-08
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
2017-01-08
Kind
Business transfer offer
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
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commercetransportationtourismemployment
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

In January 2017, Gordon Heikka advertised the possible sale of his Beaver Island rental-car business, citing health conditions and more than 26 years of operation. The offer included four Dodge Caravans and assistance for a prospective buyer, while stating that the rental business remained open. In May, a related property listing described a Lake Drive property with a shop/garage where car-rental and auto-repair businesses had operated, providing contextual support for the business’s physical setting without independently proving ownership or zoning.

Evidence limits

This is a first-party sale listing. It does not establish that a sale occurred, who acquired the business, its market value, fleet condition, or revenue.

Sources

  1. Heikka offered his established rental-car business for sale, citing health conditions, described more than 26 years of rental experience, and included four 2001 Dodge Caravans. He explicitly said the business was still operating. This first-party listing establishes an offer and claimed history, not a completed sale, valuation, fleet condition, or revenue.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 11 · t011206
  2. The seller offered 6.3 acres on Lake Drive with a mobile home, 40-by-40 shop/garage, well, septic, and claimed grandfathered commercial use. The listing said car-rental and auto-repair businesses had operated at the property and that the seller had owned it for 27 years. The forum does not independently establish ownership, zoning status, business identity, or a completed sale.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 11 · t011555

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Beaver Island Archive, “Gordon Heikka offers Beaver Island rental-car business for sale, 2017”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-gordon-heikka-rental-car-business-sale-offer-2017/, accessed [date], citing Gordon Heikka, “GREATEST OPPORTUNITY ON THE ISLAND,” Beaver Island Forum, January 8, 2017. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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