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At nineteen I opened a shop in the back of a men’s store at Phipps Plaza. We provided alteration services to twelve stores at Phipps, Perimeter, and Lenox. The shop at Phipps did well, we had three employees and provided alterations for 12 stores at Phipps, Perimeter and Lenox. One of our clients was Guffeys of Atlanta. I provided contract alteration services to them, until they hired me as head tailor, I worked with them until 1978  

I purchased an old beer joint, that was called the "Briar Patch" at 2813 Peachtree Road. The city had condemned the building, I built a small pub and called it "Claudio's". Andrew Young spoke here during his 1981 Mayoral Campaign.  Notorious for it's cold PBR in long neck bottles, juke box, a chicken plate as well as the hangout of the outlaws. 

Three years later I sold it to Mike Nelson, and Clay Harper and this became the first Fellini's Pizza.

After several test runs I purchased a commercial house just outside of Vina Del Mar, Chile and started up a cut make and trim shop. I hired tailors, and showed them how to make hand made garments for a U.S. client base.

I began developing database driven software that could track client orders. Transfering measurements and design to a plotted pattern for each client at our store in Midtown Atlanta.

My eldest son applied this concept to the Wharton entrepreneur prize and won. We began selling clothing to his start up in Philadelphia.

Leased the first floor of this West Peachtree Road address, and built a retail outlet for the sale of the clothing we made in Chile. I built out the store, but before we opened our landlord was foreclosed upon and lost the property. All tenants of the building were required to vacate. The lender that ended up with the property was an old client of mine and we were permitted to stay as the only tenant (rent free) till the property was sold and remodeled.

I try to restart after this situation with a startup in Philadelphia but that will last only two more years. the 2008 recession eventually forced us to close the shop in Chile and tailoring operations closed.

I purchased 155 Liberty Road, in Villa Rica Georgia. Two acres just off I-20, 30 minutes west of Atlanta. The property was owner financed, here I planned to build a marketplace with the aid of open source social media software. Vendors with good business concepts were permitted to set up sales venues without upfront deposits. They would have the ability to collaborate through a social media app in order to promote sales, and manage the venue. Those that came to participate in the project were unable to sustain business agreements which lead to a re-start as a storage business. 

Re-structured the Libertyhaus concept and opened Storeitorsellit. After the Libertyhaus experience I became concerned that there may be a local organization dedicated to putting me out of business. Maybe I should not have gotten involved in politics, I just wanted to do the right thing.

I heard the expression once, “Politicians are like pigs and you don’t get between the pigs and the troth at feeding time.”  I built this storage solution to suit the property I had purchase on Liberty Road. It would focus on storage clients in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Similar to Clutter and Makespace

Why pay for unused storage space?   Why rent a truck?

 Why waste your time moving?  

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