February 4, 2013

So far I have 16 hours completed with my mentor. I got two hours done yesterday. Something we went over was starting a business. I think this is the second time she mentioned it to me that you have to lose money in order to gain money. I asked her about why she chose the location that she currently has. Her response was t hat it was cheap and available. She mentioned how her lease is about to expire and that she has to find a new place to run her business. She's been looking around with her partner to see if they can find a new place to run the business. What I learned from what I'm about to explain next is that people can be really unfair about paying rent. She talked to the person about running her business there and was going to be charged a high price in rent. The difference in rent was that the other businesses around had to pay an extremely smaller portion compared to what my mentor was offered. What also makes this unfair is that the place she's trying to claim is a lot smaller than all of the other places. She did mention paying for utilities was fine with her. She found out all of this because the man she was trying to get the palce from had a chart of who's paying what. The next time we meet will be next week.