(AP) -- FLINT, Mich. (AP) - An aspiring businessman is fixing up a

garage where he plans to run a custom auto-detailing business.

Zeke Ristich then plans to renovate the attached apartment and

move into it from My Brother's Keeper, a homeless shelter.

The 57-year-old returned to his hometown of Flint about a year

ago after moving to California in the 1970s. He did repossession

work in Florida but tells The Flint Journal he began drifting after

his mother was murdered and his father, sister and son died within

a short time of each other.

At My Brother's Keeper, Ristich met local minister George

Powell, who donated the garage, and shelter volunteer Joe Schipani,

who donated tools. Ristich has already started working on a few

cars at the shop, which he calls "Gypsy Garage."

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