« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2009, 05:18:24 PM »
That kind of crap has been going on around my area for a while.
A few years ago, a steak house opened up in an older building that had been vacant. Business boomed. four months later they closed. I ran into the former manager and asked why they had closed. He said the building/land owner tripled the rent after the first three months. They had a four month trial lease to close out the end of the year and was to renew at the beginning of the next year. Went from $1000 per month to $3000 per month. The place sat empty for a year and a western-wear store opened up........ for about six months....and then guess what?.....yep.....rent tripled and the store closed. Same thing happened to a theater on the same property. They finally tore the buildings down and it has been a vacant lot for several years.
And the Chamber of Commerce has the nerve to bitch that we cant get new businesses to open up in the area. All the industrial facilities have left for greener pastures and now the town is basically a service-oriented town (hotels & restaurants) for the interstate that passes through. They've built four new hotels in the last year.
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Have you thought about buying and building your own place?

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