Originally Posted by
Big Ben
Asm....I have something better than a cocktail buddy. I hear you on the life's little lessons. I can not complain from my home office at 11am on wed listening to the west coast feed of Stern. "Artie is banging Gale King"...funny stuff. Life is good for me personally, financially, spiritually but when your job is to go house to house and seize assets for banks you get to see the real side of what is going on, no offense to the crew hanging by the pool drink rum runners. In MB, SC the 2nd most visited tourist destination next to Orl, Fl, things are bad! I mean scary bad, boo! Golf courses are cutting greens fees during peak season, that never happens. Restaurants are doing 2 for 1s everywhere. Traffic is the lightest I have seen it since Aug of 1999. My boss owns rentals on the coast in NC and he has been booked for ever all through the peak season. This year he is complaining to the mgmt company about only having 6 wks booked around 5k a week, they told him he should feel lucky the average is two weeks booked. The season 10-12wks. For a tourist town this is going to be an interesting season. I feel bad for the servers who depend on tips, especially with a recession/depr on the table.