The world of Cope Occurrences
Well, I’m happy to say that after having been in business for ourselves for a year, we were able to purchase a house of our own! We were told by the bank when we first opened our business that it would be two years before we would be able to get financing for a house. […]
We put our house on the market when we were looking at the QuikDrop franchise. Fortunately, we weren’t able to get the house sold before both of the QuikDrop stores went out of business. Talk about dodging a bullet! Not only would we have been putting the store into a smaller area, we would have […]
The whole idea of starting our own business came about while Stacia and I were taking our daily walks. During this time, the housing market was way up and people were buying and selling houses like they were trading collectible cards. Stacia and I would talk about a lot of things, but one of the […]
I decided that I wanted to keep a record of our experience, buying and then working on setting up a small business franchise called HobbyTown USA. Hopefully I can provide a little insight into what it takes to setup your own business.
When I was about 15 year old, I decided that I was tired of just ducking my head and trying to be invisible when Dad got home from work. I decided that I would make the effort to at least tell him “Hi” when he came home. For a while, I would just get a […]
Dad bought a Ham Radio that was “some assembly required” or in other words it was delivered as a kit and had to be assembled from scratch. The radio had hundreds if not thousands of transistors that had to be soldered on the board. The transistors had color stripes on them that told you what […]
The starter on my Mustang had died. So I went down to Shucks and got a replacment starter, took it home and installed the new starter. When I tried to turn the car over the starter would just smoke (literally). After messing around with it for about an hour trying to get it to work […]
Once I joined the Air Force and got through tech school, I decided that I was finally ready to get my own car. I didn’t have any credit and the only way the bank would give me a loan was if someone co-signed for me. I asked Dad and he was adamant that he didn’t […]
There was a hole in the bathtub. I don’t remember how the hole got there, but it was there. The tub was one of those shower tub combo fiberglass units. It was the only semi-working tub in the house and since the family like to take soaker baths, what did we do? Replace the tub? […]
One year I was looking a good Christmas present for Dad. I looked and looked but couldn’t find anything that I wanted to get him. Dad was always driving down to the Circle K (at the time) getting coffee, so I decided I would get him a little 4 cup coffee maker. I knew Mom […]