Lewdog
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Why believe them? Why not open it somewhere that WAS getting a lot of attention/customers?I shouldn't be running an air conditioner in October for one. And during the summer it ran constantly... my apartment has ONE window and it is in the other bedroom. So I don't get any air flow without the A/C.
You're not a home owner?
No, never said I was. I live in downtown Williamsburg. I owned a house up in Ohio before I had my failed business.
Failed business eh?
Hmmmmm....
Yep, I quit working as a Corrections Officer to open a Custom Picture Frame business in a local mall. The space I rented needed some work on it, which I paid for, but the mall which was only half full or less at the time, made promises of bring back stores and providing lots of advertisement. They never did, and were even listed on a national list of one of the top 10 failing malls in the U.S. So I didn't get hardly any business and it failed. Cost me my house, my car, and everything.
Towne Mall, Franklin, Ohio. (49 percent; $207). This aging structure between Cincinnati and Dayton has been troubled for years, as the owner, CBL & Associates, and local officials have deliberated over whether to tear it down and build something more modern. Towne Mall has one of the highest vacancy rates of any operating mall, with more closed stores than open ones. A decision on the mall's fate is supposed to come soon.
http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2009/06/26/americas-most-endangered-malls
So they lied to me and made promises they didn't keep, and it cost me huge.
Because I was getting a good deal on rent with a promise for lots of future foot traffic and advertising. It was also in an area with no other shops like mine.