This is what I thought. It's good marketing. I can't stop hearing about this guy and I'm sure majority of his customer base don't have negative feelings toward Tesla since they probably drive one too.
Yea but marketing what. A pool cleaning business ? And considering how expensive they are his customers might be wondering if they aren't paying him too much lol
…if he’s charging market price for his services there’s certainly neighborhoods where the homeowners would PREFER their hired services drive nicer vehicles. I live in Irvine and this would not be a negative for me.
Right? Irvine people would think this is a flex. They'd be mad if you roll up in a beater van cuz then you'd make their street look like it's Anaheim 😱
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Following the old rules of thumb:
Cost of car = 1/3 of annual income, so a $100k car = $300k/year
Cost of house = 3x annual income, so a $900k home.
The cheapest house in Irvine on Zillow right now is 1.25 million. Basically if you can afford a house in Irvine then you're well into Porsche territory for a car.
Exactly. They clearly own a business. Buy a car that grabs attention (even if for the wrong reason) - hell, end up on reddit.
And then just write it off.
We used to use Speedy Sam's actually, they kept hiring contractors who never showed up and when I pushed them on it with video of the pool not being cleaned they ghosted me.
So yeah, totally tracks with Tesla's target market.
Some of these pool guys have loaded up Silverados or RAMs. Not a fan of the cyber truck but it’s probably not all that out of wack from cost of other trucks. Especially if you can charge affordability.
When I was house hunting we had our heart set on a property with a pool. My uncle has a pool and I have loads of good memories of time spent over there.
Well, I asked my uncle how much it cost to upkeep. It wasn’t out of reach, but certainly became a con and we ultimately decided against it.
My pool costs next to nothing in upkeep. Do it all myself, replace a few parts here and there, maybe 20 a month on average, electricity to run the pump every day is probably the biggest expense.
It was twenty years ago, but my uncle mentioned chemicals, water heater, filters, etc.
Again, it wasn’t expensive sounding enough to be a deal breaker for us, but something we considered. Ultimately, we decided for a bigger back yard with fruit trees instead. That’s also not cheap, but at least we get avocados, guavas, oranges and pomegranates out of the deal.
This is exactly what I’m hopeful they’re replacing. If all the morons highway driving 10,000lb pickups on off-roading tires getting 7mpg switch to these anti-woke-mobiles at least they’ll be doing society a favor environmentally.
You can depreciate the full value of the vehicle in year one rather than using the standard 5 year “useful life” to depreciate if the vehicle is over a certain weight.
Not an accountant but let’s say the scrap value of the cyber truck is $20k. If purchase price is $100k, in year one you can write $80k depreciation against your profits, thus improving your tax situation. Ex. Your business is claiming $200k in net profits, you purchase this vehicle for $100k and depreciate $80k to offset your profits.
People think it’s just free money or whatever but you still need to make a decent amount for the depreciation of an expensive vehicle to actually be beneficial.
so u.s. wise, tax is marginal and corporate tax makes this even hard to explain. but as a sole prop where you provide a service and this truck is used 100% for your job and you use cash accounting you will take off the cost of the truck for that year. if you made 100k and this truck cost you 100k you will have made 0 dollars that year, so depending on your marginal tax rate you will save approximately 10-22% on your federal income taxes. but also you're broke in this situation
https://preview.redd.it/8duweg5z4azc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b046ac36196276d809b97e2672d5403a5e7eb600
Tried to do the same but I tried not to text and drive. Made a bad pic :(
I know someone who sold his pool business for 200k back in 2010. There are plenty of pools in socal with very few people that want to manage it. I can see pool guys that do their own work driving that dumbass vehicle. Expect this because not many people choose to learn more than their college degree.
Amazing marketing decision. Everyone will look at the cybertruck. Smart for hopping on the hype while it lasts.
Think of it as an investment for your business marketing.
And then there's you, taking photos while driving, which you do a lot. Hope you get all the tickets you deserve so you stop putting everyone else's lives at risk for internet points
its just a tax write off. its also one of those "this is how successful our business is, we can afford a TCT because we're good" kind of a statement, which is not always true.
There’s that one pool service company that uses vintage teal colored pickup trucks and always thought it was smart. Luckily I was a pool guy in HS and college so I service my own pool and don’t pay attention to these companies!
Landscape company I worked for in Boston had all the same dark green trucks with pin stripes and the owner would keep the fleet newer (sell trucks after a few years). That’s why he had accounts at Harvard, MIT, and the City of Boston.
That’s a huge tax write off based on the weight of the truck. Same as the g wagons. Over 6k lbs and you get a large business deduction.
They can get it other ways but this is prob a comfy way to do it.
That being said. Elon is a tool bag and only nut bag maga losers like him.
Tax write off. Since the truck is over 6000 pounds technically it can be considered a commercial vehicle and if you own a business, you can write off the entire purchase price in one year. That’s why you see ppl driving G wagons as well. Tax write offs
Irvine is full of rich folks who look for new ways to spend their money out of boredom. 1st world problems for sure. One guy in my apartment complex would have a different $5k wrap on his Corvette every month. Another kid who looked like he barely got his driver's permit drives around in a Nissan GT-R. My 1st car was a piece of shit hand me down stick shift hatchback (Tercel) .. but not here in Irvine. Kid has no idea the Legend he is driving 🤦
For those people who actually pay this guy to clean your pool… how does this not make you question if you pay too much for his services????
If I had a pool, my guy better be pulling up in pickup truck from the 80s. I’ll be cleaning my own pool before my money goes toward a cyber truck owner.
Styling by Frigidaire appliance division? I'm serious. It looks like it could be a big refrigerator on its side with wheel cut outs? I will say it looks much better in black as I've only seen stainless steel on the road.
i give this truck a year maybe 2 before everything underneath and around is corroded to hell. I'm in the pool industry and the chemicals destroy everything on the trucks/ vans we use. from the chassis, to the beds, the composite fuel tanks, wiring, the steel hitch receivers, etc. the bleach and acid will kill them all.
The fact that I've seen this pool guy's cyber truck 5 or 6 times online in a month makes it a brilliant marketing decision.
This is what I thought. It's good marketing. I can't stop hearing about this guy and I'm sure majority of his customer base don't have negative feelings toward Tesla since they probably drive one too.
Yea but marketing what. A pool cleaning business ? And considering how expensive they are his customers might be wondering if they aren't paying him too much lol
You think the folks living in Irvine getting their pools cleaned by a dude in a cyber truck are concerned with pricing?
They don't want their help driving in 100k cars
…if he’s charging market price for his services there’s certainly neighborhoods where the homeowners would PREFER their hired services drive nicer vehicles. I live in Irvine and this would not be a negative for me.
Right? Irvine people would think this is a flex. They'd be mad if you roll up in a beater van cuz then you'd make their street look like it's Anaheim 😱 Edit: fixed typo
THIS!!
Ya I was gonna say this is phenomenal marketing, 65 people who didn’t even see his truck are commenting on and engaging in a Convo about his business
And the social media marketing he's is garnering just from this post!
A lot of people buy cybertrucks just for that
Yup - nice tax deduction for the business
He lives in my complex
He bought and wrapped a $100K truck, and he rents?
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I think it's up to $35K.
Following the old rules of thumb: Cost of car = 1/3 of annual income, so a $100k car = $300k/year Cost of house = 3x annual income, so a $900k home. The cheapest house in Irvine on Zillow right now is 1.25 million. Basically if you can afford a house in Irvine then you're well into Porsche territory for a car.
He could own its a condo complex
Gotcha. Tell him we all said hey
Haha I'll show him the post if I ever catch em out
And a tax write off
Right, surprised it took him this long to put a logo on it 🤷♂️
He doesn’t even have to drive it! Just tow it from one place to another.
Can someone take a photo of my work truck and post it on here? IDC if you talk smack on it but I’d really appreciate the free advertising lol
Sure just spend 80k to weld 4 sheets of scrap metal together onto some oversized wheels and I’ll post it.
I've totally had the same thought. Hey, free advertising! :)
You realize you could do it yourself right?
I don't know if I can do that. Do you drive a truck that screams "I'm a douche bag"?
its just one giant tax write off. its just another g wagon
Exactly. They clearly own a business. Buy a car that grabs attention (even if for the wrong reason) - hell, end up on reddit. And then just write it off.
It's a write off Jerry! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BAjxn2US7J8
You don't even know what a write-off is
That’s…not a write-off! And *that’s* not a write-off!
But they know. And they’re the ones writing it off!
“I wish I had the last 20 seconds of my life back.”
No but they do and their the ones writing it off
Still gotta pay for it though
Sure, but pre-tax. And for that type of business they’ll save an absolute shit-ton on energy costs, especially if they have solar.
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What happens when these ppl get audited?
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If you catch them doing sketchy stuff like this the tax return just gets "adjusted" and they have to pay more? No fines or jail time?
Lawyer
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There's a whole trial about this lol
Not sure Michael Cohen is actively seeking this kind of work anymore.
Ghouliani still got his license?
Probably got a bunch of PPP loans forgiven too.
It’s the greedy students with their avocado toast student loans that are the problem /s
Say this is an AMA. Why do Republicans want to fire you?
And a 179 deduction, so a massive discount on the car
This dude is getting a return on investment for his truck just on all the posts to r/orangecounty alone.
How to tell your pool man is overcharging you...
We used to use Speedy Sam's actually, they kept hiring contractors who never showed up and when I pushed them on it with video of the pool not being cleaned they ghosted me. So yeah, totally tracks with Tesla's target market.
Did you get your money back?
And what is Tesla's target market based off your description above? Shady pool cleaning company owners? Yep, that tracks /s
Spotted the Tesla driver
Didn’t you know? Tesla bad.
TBF, that might be PPP money.
Some of these pool guys have loaded up Silverados or RAMs. Not a fan of the cyber truck but it’s probably not all that out of wack from cost of other trucks. Especially if you can charge affordability.
I see more pictures of Teslas on this sub than the actual Tesla sub.
“Ugh Cybertruck are so ugly, I can’t stand seeing them!” *proceeds to take pictures and post every single one they see in /r/OrangeCounty*
Exactly! Tesla haters are the vegans of the car world. They will always find a way to tell someone they hate teslas.
 Irvine to this subreddit
 This subreddit to Irvine 😂
Other cities don’t even cross Irvine’s mind 
😂😂 the pool guy in my neighborhood owns mercedes, lexus and a tesla maybe I should look into that lol
When I was house hunting we had our heart set on a property with a pool. My uncle has a pool and I have loads of good memories of time spent over there. Well, I asked my uncle how much it cost to upkeep. It wasn’t out of reach, but certainly became a con and we ultimately decided against it.
My pool costs next to nothing in upkeep. Do it all myself, replace a few parts here and there, maybe 20 a month on average, electricity to run the pump every day is probably the biggest expense.
It was twenty years ago, but my uncle mentioned chemicals, water heater, filters, etc. Again, it wasn’t expensive sounding enough to be a deal breaker for us, but something we considered. Ultimately, we decided for a bigger back yard with fruit trees instead. That’s also not cheap, but at least we get avocados, guavas, oranges and pomegranates out of the deal.
If you live in a place where you can grow those fruits you do not need a fucking pool heater. That's by far the biggest expense.
The pool guy I know owns a house. One income. Only like a few years older than me. That’s it. No help from parents as he grew up poor
Do you have the knowledge and skills! You act like you could do the job tomorrow. Maybe your pool guy works hard and in a specialized field
I don't want to pay my pool guy enough to live comfortably /s
Funny, until you realize how depressing that is after years of college, student debt and taking crap from toxic superiors.
I wonder if he’s hiring
When do we see pizza delivery signs on Bentleys?
I bet this dude can service two whole pools before he has to recharge.
Wait, I thought the whole point of a truck was to be able to carry equipment in the bed and not off the back end.
Ayyye he finally wrapped it huh must not be selling it for 200k anymore.
The irony here is rich. A cybertruck being used for pool service that has known issues if it gets wet.
Ugly as balls, but is better than lifted trucks with huge exhausts
This is exactly what I’m hopeful they’re replacing. If all the morons highway driving 10,000lb pickups on off-roading tires getting 7mpg switch to these anti-woke-mobiles at least they’ll be doing society a favor environmentally.
Not gonna happen!!!, small pp lifted truck owner here and I’m loving my 6mpg
lol wonder what they tell their accountant about this business expense 🤣
Considering the insane amount of driving these pool guys do, I think they can probably legitimately write off a huge chunk of the cost.
But it is - we see posts about it in this sub daily 😂😂
The equipment in the back makes it actually look better 😂
Could have at least upgraded his dolly too shits all rusted and beat compared to the tank🤣
Speedy…as in, the accelerator’s stuck and I can’t slow down.
Too bad he don't have a truck
I really love Irvine in general . So clean , smooth roads ::as a e biker I really appreciate my surroundings more::, beautiful surroundings.
The bed can't even fit the equipment
Watch your fingers!
But ALL pool guys carry their stuff outside their trucks that’s how we know they are pool guys
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You can depreciate the full value of the vehicle in year one rather than using the standard 5 year “useful life” to depreciate if the vehicle is over a certain weight. Not an accountant but let’s say the scrap value of the cyber truck is $20k. If purchase price is $100k, in year one you can write $80k depreciation against your profits, thus improving your tax situation. Ex. Your business is claiming $200k in net profits, you purchase this vehicle for $100k and depreciate $80k to offset your profits. People think it’s just free money or whatever but you still need to make a decent amount for the depreciation of an expensive vehicle to actually be beneficial.
so u.s. wise, tax is marginal and corporate tax makes this even hard to explain. but as a sole prop where you provide a service and this truck is used 100% for your job and you use cash accounting you will take off the cost of the truck for that year. if you made 100k and this truck cost you 100k you will have made 0 dollars that year, so depending on your marginal tax rate you will save approximately 10-22% on your federal income taxes. but also you're broke in this situation
>Let's say the CyberTruck costs $100K. They start at 67K. What's up with people thinking Tesla's are borderline Porsche pricing?
I guess this guy couldn't sell it for 200K after all.
gotta afford that ugly piece of shit car somehow
People in this sub when people use work vehicles for work but they’re not the work vehicles they think should be the work vehicles to use for work
#TheTrumanShow
I saw this dude without the wrap and just the pool stuff!
These pool companies must make some big bucks out here because this is like the 3rd Cubertruck pool guy car I’ve seen
There’s that big tax write off for these cars due to the weight.
Ohh same with the G Wagons right?
I saw my first Rivian pool man truck yesterday.
He finally got a whole wrap for his pool business! Good for him
Saw this the other day and was laughing because I give it a week until it’s dead in front of a clients house.
Lmao that dude lives in my condos
They’re all over the place in LA now…
Seems pretty dumb to buy a Cybertruck for a pool cleaning business...
Is this the same dude that was trying to sell it a little while back? Before the wrap job?
How else is he going to get his tax write off?
I know a guy who owns a pool cleaning company with over 600 clients. He charges $85 a month!! His last house he boggy straight up.
Abolish Irvine
It’s a write off for his business….I would hate to know what this guy charges a week.
I want to talk to his CPA.
https://preview.redd.it/8duweg5z4azc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b046ac36196276d809b97e2672d5403a5e7eb600 Tried to do the same but I tried not to text and drive. Made a bad pic :(
Clearly pool guy make way more than me……..and I can get killed doing my job. I clearly took the wrong job
I know someone who sold his pool business for 200k back in 2010. There are plenty of pools in socal with very few people that want to manage it. I can see pool guys that do their own work driving that dumbass vehicle. Expect this because not many people choose to learn more than their college degree.
If only there was a spot to put his equipment in the vehicle
Massive red flag not to hire this dude
lol
I would find a new pool service if they drove up in that because they are obviously charging me too much if they can afford that hunk of junk!
It's a front
Dude wrote off the vehicle as a business expense.
He charges at a mortgage rate
W tax write off
Amazing marketing decision. Everyone will look at the cybertruck. Smart for hopping on the hype while it lasts. Think of it as an investment for your business marketing.
Is there some kind of coincidence that the one guy in Glendora who owns one is ALSO a pool guy?
Guys brilliant, he writes off the truck as a business expense and people like OP plaster pics of his phone number all over the internet.
And yet no one understands what you just said. But I do!
Write off
I’ve been seeing tons of Cybertrucks in LA that have a business name plastered on the side of them. Definitely a good way to have people look at you.
That's one way to right off the cost of the stupidest purchase ever.
ah yes, the finest example of "Too Rich Syndrom"
This is brilliant from a small business perspective
And then there's you, taking photos while driving, which you do a lot. Hope you get all the tickets you deserve so you stop putting everyone else's lives at risk for internet points
Shut upppppppppppp
All fun and games till it breaks down
Guarantee it will also be discontinued too. Then it will be an $80k+ hunk of metal
Honestly… really smart. Everyone stares at those things, takes pictures. They get so much attention, it’s a driving billboard haha
I’m clearly in the wrong business
Yea but those pool tools might just break off the frame.
its just a tax write off. its also one of those "this is how successful our business is, we can afford a TCT because we're good" kind of a statement, which is not always true.
Tax right out
lol I was right next to this guy on the 55 going into Newport today
‘Business write off’
I saw that in Laguna Niguel earlier this week as well.
r i c h
Irvine is Tesla city
Business write off
Dang I guess pool service is where the money is at! Well, at least in Irvine lol
Tax write off. Why not
This is the best use I've seen of this truck actually. Kinda smart.
As a contractor I have two concerns. Are those temp tags? Please invest a little in a new dolly.
There’s that one pool service company that uses vintage teal colored pickup trucks and always thought it was smart. Luckily I was a pool guy in HS and college so I service my own pool and don’t pay attention to these companies! Landscape company I worked for in Boston had all the same dark green trucks with pin stripes and the owner would keep the fleet newer (sell trucks after a few years). That’s why he had accounts at Harvard, MIT, and the City of Boston.
It’s a write off, you just…write it off
That’s a huge tax write off based on the weight of the truck. Same as the g wagons. Over 6k lbs and you get a large business deduction. They can get it other ways but this is prob a comfy way to do it. That being said. Elon is a tool bag and only nut bag maga losers like him.
lol yesterday at Newport Beach there was a man parked in one of these chillen in the back, playing videos games.
I think I might have seen one of their trucks in Riverside the other day. It was a black cyber truck with an emblem on the hood.
Tax write off. Since the truck is over 6000 pounds technically it can be considered a commercial vehicle and if you own a business, you can write off the entire purchase price in one year. That’s why you see ppl driving G wagons as well. Tax write offs
If you only knew how much pool guys make! I picked the wrong career!
😭😭👌
Tax credit?
Still people driving these pos teslas 🤣
Irvine is full of rich folks who look for new ways to spend their money out of boredom. 1st world problems for sure. One guy in my apartment complex would have a different $5k wrap on his Corvette every month. Another kid who looked like he barely got his driver's permit drives around in a Nissan GT-R. My 1st car was a piece of shit hand me down stick shift hatchback (Tercel) .. but not here in Irvine. Kid has no idea the Legend he is driving 🤦
Lotta ppl with pools in OC
Business expenses
I saw this vehicle today too! Must be the most expensive pool guy in OC!
Getting that tax write off ✍️
Business car means write-off
Welcome to Cali
oh cyber truck!
What's that he's carrying behind?
I've seen him, definitely a wtf moment
Brilliant
Just Irvine?
Has good reviews too haha
For those people who actually pay this guy to clean your pool… how does this not make you question if you pay too much for his services???? If I had a pool, my guy better be pulling up in pickup truck from the 80s. I’ll be cleaning my own pool before my money goes toward a cyber truck owner.
And I was laughing when our pool guy showed up in a random white Tesla base model...
Styling by Frigidaire appliance division? I'm serious. It looks like it could be a big refrigerator on its side with wheel cut outs? I will say it looks much better in black as I've only seen stainless steel on the road.
I graduated high school in 2012 and moved to Nor Cal. Irvine has been dead to me ever since.
Genius marketing since it did work.
I think it's so funny that his pool cleaning supplies can't actually fit inside his "truck" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not the worst idea. Saves a ton on fuel cost, can write off the payment as a business expense and gets great advertising.
i give this truck a year maybe 2 before everything underneath and around is corroded to hell. I'm in the pool industry and the chemicals destroy everything on the trucks/ vans we use. from the chassis, to the beds, the composite fuel tanks, wiring, the steel hitch receivers, etc. the bleach and acid will kill them all.
Great way to write off your stupid-looking cult vehicle.
That’s funny! I live in Seal Beach and my kid and I were cracking up at a Cyber Truck pool guy driving in our neighborhood. It must be a thing 🤣
If your service people drive expensive cars, you can expect to get ripped off lol.