Today is Good News day…

My last post was all doom and gloom…
Things have swung back to the positive in the last couple of days.

Our rental house buyer under contract failed to secure financing on Monday. The house officially went back on the market yesterday morning. We had four showings yesterday and received a new contract last night. It is the pretty much the same deal as before, so we are still walking away from a chunk of equity. But… we are under contract and ready to get rid of that financial obligation, yet again.

There is a local radio show/TV show that covers the food/restaurant industry. They are going to broadcast live from our shop in May. I don’t know the exact day yet, but they typically get 750-1000 people to show up for lunch during their on-site lunch broadcasts. They do so every Saturday and have for years. Now we have to figure out how to staff the store and stock the store to do two weeks worth of lunch business in about three hours. It will be a good thing to get us some exposure, even though it will be a challenge.

My finger that I split all the way to the bone is healing up nicely. I expected to have trouble with it, but it is doing great. I also have not developed tetanus, a staph infection, flesh eating disease, Ebola, yellow fever, or any other crazy disease as a result of this injury and complete lack of professional medical attention!

Tracy, Josh, Jonah, Ethan and I are going to Disney World in June with Tracy’s mom. She has been waiting for Ethan to get big enough to go there and actually remember it. She is taking Tracy and me as well. Tracy’s older sister Kelly and her husband Tim are going to run the shop for us while we are gone. Kelly owns/operates Curves and Tim is a school teacher, so they both have the flexibility in their schedules during that time of year to help out.

Intellitec is supposed to begin construction on their end of the complex soon. They are tearing down 100 linear feet of the building on their end and rebuilding it, adding eight automotive lift bays for their automotive technical college. I am hoping the entire complex renovation will occur at the same time. Our property manager does not have a construction scheduled nailed down yet for the new building façade.

Gotta run…
Take care,
JD