{"id":75,"date":"2026-02-07T23:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/wordpress\/?p=75"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:40:55","slug":"bountiful-hobbytown-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/bountiful-hobbytown-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bountiful HobbyTown USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stacia and I have been doing well enough with the Idaho Falls store that we decided we were going to open a second store.\u00a0 So after a lot of discussion, we settled on Bountiful Utah as our next location.\u00a0 Why? You might ask?\u00a0 We looked at Pocatello, Mossoula, Twin Falls and a few other locations and the combination of little competition and having lots of family around was appealing.<\/p>\n<p>So we started working on the business plan and after a few months had a finished document to present to the bank. <\/p>\n<p>After a discussion with the HobbyTown VP of finance, he told us that there was no way that the bank would lend us the money to start a second store, especially in this economy. He said that most banks were requiring at least thirty percent down before the bank would even entertain the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacia and I have been doing well enough with the Idaho Falls store that we decided we were going to open a second store.\u00a0 So after a lot of discussion, we settled on Bountiful Utah as our next location.\u00a0 Why? You might ask?\u00a0 We looked at Pocatello, Mossoula, Twin Falls and a few other locations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbytown-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}