Help Ryan Recover Mobile Body & Paint, Asheville

I am Ryan Pryor, the owner of Mobile Body and Paint at 562 Riverside Dr. Asheville 28801, and the sole recipient of this GoFundMe.

My business lost everything, all of our paint, pearls, paint chips, tools, supplies and equipment and 15 vehicles. The area is contaminated from businesses up river, a hazmat suit is required to even go on our property.

We had a well established business that helped support the community through low cost repairs, we had a many talented employees that I will continue to support as long as I can. We helped everybody we could to the best of our ability.

We all loved working on cars and especially loved our customers.

Unfortunately, we were under insured and had no warning like many others in the area that we were to loose it all.

We had prepped for 4 to 6 feet of floodwaters and got 25 feet.

As you can see our building, not only flooded, the building was completely submerged with 25 feet floodwaters, but also collapsed onto everything we had.

If anybody can help us, we are in a dire situation right now that will surely continue to grow. As is the rest of Asheville.

We are a small business that just lost everything, many of the programs support and family needs, which are the most important and should come first, but there is nothing for small businesses except loans, which would push us further into debt.

I am continuing to support our team of employees until they can get back on their feet.

As of January 25, 2025 we still are struggling to make ends meet. We can not find another suitable location to buy or lease for the business, and are unable to rebuild in the original location.

We have applied for many grants and loans and have only one small grant so far.

We appreciate all the donations. They really have made a difference between life and death and being able to survive through these harsh winter months.

If we would have had any idea that the shop location was in danger of ever flooding, we would have never moved to the property. We were told that the property was never going to flood as it previously had in 2004 where the shop received for feet of flood waters.

Not only did this shop flooded, but the whole building was completely submerged, before collapsing.

The funds will go to immediate needs, of myself and employees. Then they will help cover the cost of new tools and materials and possibly a new used Mobile paint truck, and a utility camper shell, so we can get back to work at least temporarily until we can secure another building to officially reopen our business.