We were such innocents.
Our objective: Get out of Atlanta, the traffic is murder.
Our criteria: To find a two-story building on the Main Street of some quaint small town in the North Georgia mountains where we could live in a loft-style residence upstairs and have our business, and perhaps some rental space, downstairs.
Our business, by the way, is cutting picture mats for artists, photographers, interior decorators, etc., or anyone who needs picture mats in volume. Our website for mats is http://www.picturematdesigns.com/
We started our search for the perfect location in 2001. Our search went farther and farther north until we wound up in North Carolina. We found this building on Valentine's Day in 2002 and finally closed on it in June.
It's a great building. I thought so then and I think so now. But I never suspected my vision for it would be so hard to realize. When we first walked into it, I said to Tony, my husband, "It will probably take at least ten years, but this could be a million dollar building."
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