Ok, I am resurrecting my thread but this time with a different purpose. I installed the stripes over the car in time to take it to Myrtle Beach, but I'm not happy with it. I will try to have the car re-striped AGAIN this summer. But, on to my real rant....
As I stated in the beginning of this thread, we bought a pizza restaurant in the end of May. The best analogy I can relate it to is like buying a "running" car out of a farm field. Yeah it runs, but not very well. With all of the paperwork that we were shown when we bought it, it was shown to be
slightly profitable. Combine that with the manager salary who left and it was supposed to bring in about 30-40k per year. It has not. It has cost us double that amount plus some to keep it running from May through the end of the year. We are pretty sure the previous owner lied through his teeth about the place. There are other things besides that that I am not going to get into here right now - it would take me forever to type - but we are in the middle of a law suit with him. The short story is that we weren't able to get the credit card processor switched over for a couple of weeks and during that time he was taking the card payments. He agreed both verbally and through emails and texts that he would reimburse us, which he has not. That is the meat of the lawsuit. He is obviously denying everything and trying to counter-sue for credit card processing fees. If he didn't take our money, how in the hell do we owe him processing fees?!?! Anyway, the bigger deal here is since it is obviously not profitable for us right now, we are going broke. Needless to say we aren't happy, we're stressed out beyond belief. BUT, the bright side of it all and part of the reason we decided to buy the place is that it's MAYBE a mile away from the new Suntrust Stadium and baseball season will be here soon. There is a great deal of potential, but so many hurdles to jump through to get it there. One big hurdle is that the AC for the place doesn't really work. We are supposed to have 2 units on the roof, but when our service men were checking things out after we took over they informed us there is only 1. The landlord then told me that it is our responsibility to replace it. More recently we had a water pipe burst in the wall between our suite and next door. We replaced our water heater a few months ago, so the plumber who installed it, who is also working on the new build 2 suites down, come in to inspect. They found that the empty suite had a water heater that was rusted and thought that it was the culprit. We told the property manager who sent a crew out and found it was the pipe coming from our water heater. It is inside the wall, goes into the floor and it burst maybe 2" above the floor. Of course the property manager/landlord is putting that on us too. Barring our tax return and whatever our lawsuit can/will bring us, we will be out of money in March with about 3 years left on the lease. So much for getting my garage built!
Anyway, I am going to shamelessly plug our restaurant and website here. I know that most everyone who is on here don't live in the area, but word of mouth can help anyway. If you or anyone you may know will be in the area, stop by - we will most definitely be grateful for the business!! The pizza is good if you can tolerate the heat for a bit! I am actually thinking of making it a takeout/delivery only restaurant for the summer unless we can get the AC taken care of.....
www.vitosnypizzas.com
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