I have done pretty well with decent electricity and selling gear.
yes, maybe because you have cheap electricity, secure location for miners and time for selling, packaging and sending your mining gear.
I don't have anything from this, but really...if you want to put 1000$ to Bitcoin, buy them directly instead of some stupid mining ideas. and this is valid I would say for majority of board users..
Yes... but at one time did not have some of it. I invested in making a mining area instead of doing the put some in each room. It was not free... it was a investment. there is nothing to stop you from having one to just upfront costs. My main factor is i needed it for cooling for summer, now I can do lot's of CFM's and cool in summer.
On packaging on mining gear... keep the boxes they send it to you in. It's that simple I don't invest in new boxes and packing that would be stupid. I have a system where I keep original boxing and when I sell I use the same boxing it was sent to me in.