Snowbum's BMW Motorcycle Repair & Information Website

When I moved from Los Angeles to South Lake Tahoe, California, during 1972-1973, I registered the name Fleischer Electronics and Engineering Services as the legal name for my business.  I kept that name as the legal cover name for all my future businesses, until late 2019 when I moved home and shop to Carson City, Nevada.  

At South Lake Tahoe, California, things got a bit complicated over the various needed tax filings, and a few other things.  I decided to simply use the shortened name Fleischer's Service.  That turned out to be a bad choice.  I had problems with Internet & phone companies, regarding the name Fleischer's Service.  For whatever reason, SOME phone book companies, apparently thought that if "Service" is in the name, then I was running a gasoline and car service station! This was a problem even before the Internet.   It took me a LONG time to fix this....>>hard to fix when it gets sent around the Internet, posted in local and distant phone directories, etc.   I changed to Fleischer Electronics Service, to try to avoid the hassles with those people and companies, including telephone companies, from making further mistakes; and, hopefully to have the problem eventually go away.  It is NOT pleasant to be woken up at 2 a.m., by someone needing a tire repair.   There were a limited number of phone book producers, so I eventually managed to stop THAT problem.  The problem decreased, over time.   By the late eighties, with the increasingly common use of the Internet, things got a lot worse again.   Trying to get search engines on the Internet to update their files, that increasingly were shared amongst all of them, was a mess. 

Some internet 'sources' still showed my old obsolete non-functioning business telephone number that I had from 1972 to the late nineties, 530-541-5299. That did not bother me too much, but the Service Station idea took hold again.   I then changed to a non-business number, 530-541-1610, which I successfully used ...up until November 2019 when I moved from Tahoe to Carson City.  I "knew" that ATT, my phone provider since a teenager!, always kept a disconnected number for about a year, with a message on it, with any new number.  THAT I WANTED! ATT did put a referral number on that -1610 number ...but only for two months, November and December of 2019.  ATT announced, but not to me and hardly anyone else, a major change in their business practice.... effective 1 January 2020.... they no longer would have phone referrals on disconnected phone numbers at all, .....which did not please me in the slightest, and did not help with my retaining business!    I dealt with this by snail-mailing a lot of postcards with my new phone number.   I passed out more cards a bit later when I made major changes to my electronics business website.    The only good thing about it all was that I was no longer listed under gas stations, service stations, etc.  Yep, finally gone, and so it has remained.   

There were problems trying to get a land line from ATT at my new shop and home.   It's a bit of a story, so will spare you, but, the bottom line is that while many of my immediate neighbors still have ATT land lines and we all have ATT wiring under the street and in our home!...ATT officially won't allow any more land line connections in the 55+ community I live in, and that my shop is in; AND, ATT will LIE about it. I wanted a land line for phone and internet.  I was fine for ATT and its DSL service Uverse.  NOT available, even though it WAS.  I had to go with Spectrum, which has turned out to have its own problems, mostly fixed...but the Internet speed is super-good, far beyond ATT DSL/Uverse.   

UNfortunately, it took many months to positively, forever (?) DEregister the previous owner of MY totally new telephone number, 775-461-3530, and Spectrum, my phone provider, was the cause of the entire problem.  As of early 2021, things seem to be finally fixed, finally reliable...although I still get an occasional call for the previous phone number owner....even now, in 2024.

I put a website together for the business some years ago:    https://fleischerelectronicsservice.com/ .
I deleted 100% of all my California-registered business names.  Fleischer Electronics Service is THE name I used for registering with the City of Carson City, and the State of Nevada.  That business uses an E-mail address of   info@fleischerelectronicsservice.com  .
I try to keep that website and my BMW tech info site up-to-date.

I have owned various tiny to small businesses (this is not a complete list):
A charter flight company that also taught flying (Fleischer Aviation Services).
An aircraft radio company (Fleischer Flight Radio).
A car audio company (Ultimate Auto Stereo) that did retail sales and installations.
A BMW motorcycle custom work shop (Fleischer's BMW Service).
A machine shop, that had two parts, one did mostly car items, the other did custom items (Fleischer's Machine Services; Machining by Flash).
An antique motorcycle repair, restoration, and buy/sell company, Fleischer's Antique Bikes (this was part of my BMW business).