Service 06
Want your own
location? Learn
it from someone
who has done it.
Cane Jackson started with a smaller location, outgrew it, opened Exodus Auto Exchange LLC in Canton, and then opened Expert Auto Exchange LLC in Cleveland. He’ll tell you what the first two years cost.
What we cover
In the order it
happens.
We set the scope with you. Some people need the licensing side. Some already have a license and are losing money on cars that won’t sell.
Is this for you
The hours, the money, and what happens to your life when a car you paid $9,000 for turns out to need $3,000.
Licensing
What Ohio asks for, bonding, an approved location, the training requirement, and the paperwork that follows you afterward. The rules change, so we send you to the Ohio BMV for what is current.
The location
Zoning, display space, what an inspector wants to see, and visibility against rent. Cheap rent usually means a place nobody drives past.
Money and floor plan
What you need to open against what you need to survive a slow month. How floor plan financing works, what it costs, and what carrying cost does to a business that isn’t selling fast enough.
Getting inventory
Auctions, trades, wholesale, and private buys. What to look at, what to walk away from, and how to price a car before you own it.
Reconditioning
What you fix, what you disclose, and where the line sits. Both of Cane’s locations run a 16-point standard.
Pricing and turn
Most new dealers get in trouble because their cars sit too long. How to price so they move, when to cut, and why holding out for the last four hundred dollars can cost you four thousand.
Titles and paperwork
Titles, transfers, temporary tags, disclosures, and record keeping. Treat it casually and the state will come after you.
Customers and reputation
The hard sale, the car that comes back, and the review you didn’t deserve.
Most people who
ask shouldn’t
do it.
A first conversation that ends with “not yet, and here is what would have to change” has saved people real money.
If it is for you, you’ll leave knowing what order to do it in.
How it runs
We work in
sessions.
A first conversation
Where you are, what you have, and what you think the business is. No charge.
Scope and fee, in writing
What we’ll cover, over how many sessions, and for how much. Agreed before anything starts.
The work
Working sessions on your own numbers, location, inventory, and paperwork.
Afterward
People come back at the points that matter. First auction, first bad car, first month the floor plan bites.
This is business advice based on running dealerships in Ohio. It is not legal, tax, accounting, or financial advice, and it isn’t a guarantee of a license, an approval, or a profitable business. Check licensing requirements with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and take your structure and tax questions to a qualified professional.
Set up a first talk
Tell us where
you are in it.
Thinking about it, saving for it, already licensed, or already open and stuck. Say which one you are.
Consulting question
The first conversation is free. Say where you are and what you want out of it.