Rambling thoughts of an almost mindless Realtor.

Those that know me well, know that in a not so distant past -- I was a restaurant owner.  A restaurant that specialized in all things pizza.  We also had a full bar and if the money had been better, or the employees a little bit more reliable, I would still own it.  The problem with owning a restaurant is that when everyone else is ready to play, you have to work twice as hard.  But I've never been afriad of hard work.

The other day my buddy Mike tweeted about going to visit the Dogfish Brewery for a break.  Mike is a Realtor who works the Rehoboth Beach real estate market.  He had no idea how jealous I was that he was walking through the doors of that establishment.  The wild thing about that is that I had just got done watching the founder of Dogfish deliver a testimonial that was basically a sales pitch about the small brewing system that he started with.  I've got the itch.  Ever since I sold my shop, I've been thinking about opening something back up.  Next time it will be different.  It'll be smaller.  It'll be ran with less employees.  It'll be more stream lined.  No delivery.  Maybe even no carry out.  All dine in traffic.  A place where I can take my clients and if I wanted to spend the day working from there, I could.  A little bit more a pub feel, with an emphasis on pizza.

What does that have to do with real estate?  Very little.  Except, that when I've been spending all day going back and forth working on online assets, talking to clients, lenders, etc and trying to put things together, it is nice to dream.  My last restaurant was a bit of a nightmare.  It owned me.  It owned me SO much, that I miss it.  It became part of who I was.  So it is nice to sit back and have a little distraction... Most people call those hobbies.  It is too easy to get wrapped up in your work and forget about the things that make you happy.  Working on my online assets is fun for me.  I like to tinker.  But sometimes I need a full break.  That is why I continue planning for my nano brewery and pizza pub.  Because someday, it'll happen.

Don't be surprised if you get a phone call from me Mike.  I think we'll have to do some taste testing.

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