A new place to work and another auction!

I am still 4 weeks outside of my auction and lo and behold the owner of my storage has closed on another facility. Access Storage is now under the Avandale umbrella. This is an excellent opportunity and creates some new challenges. Access has a Car Wash included with the property and 4 acres of undeveloped land. Look for a lot to happen here. Oh yeah, did I mention it is one mile from Guardian. This may constitute some running between facilities for me, but that is just good business.

Now for the challenges! The office came complete with contracts, cameras, a comfy couch for the customers and no employees. Usually when a company is taken over or bought out the customers and their pay comes as part of the deal. We are not sure when but there are no employees so day one we start behind the eight ball. Also on day one we find out that Access Storage is in the final days of an auction of it’s own. I don’t understand this auction first of all there is no paper trail that is easy to follow, and there is only one space going up for auction. The facility is only 55 to 60 % occupied so why push only one unit why not wait for more units to accumulate. To top this problem the customer has notified that he has retained a lawyer to declare bankruptcy. What a pain in the ass this is. Now that we are trying to put together an office on the fly, we are now in a horse race. The race is this, when the lawyer gets the paperwork into the court house we will be notified and have to kill the auction on this space. So who is faster the lawyer and his paperwork or Access and the calendar. If Auction date gets here without our notification of the bankruptcy then the sale goes on.

The best thing about the new facility and it’s location so close to us, is that we can run the two stores in tandem. And I get free car washes !!! Yeah!!