This month’s issue of The Cornerstone is out now, read it at thecornerstonepress.com My phone call with the radio station owner went well, maybe you can hear my voice on the radio soon. Next week we’re going to try to meet up at the station. On top of the opportunities at the radio station, there may be uses for the surrounding land, for instance the owner has a snowcone stand their. He also let me know that my city has a local paper, so I reached out to them as well if they’d like any help or to talk to me. My pursuits to purchase a commercial property have changed. The building I was looking at has unpaid taxes and a company has already bought them. This puts a lien on the property and would have to be settled before selling, in other words too much trouble to be worth the effort. I’m fine with a rundown location, cleaning up dirt and debris takes a little effort and the difference is visible. Cleaning a legal mess is near impossible. Unfortunately for our city, that building will probably remain empty for another decade. When I walked around the other day, there were a couple store fronts with boarded up windows and I’ll work with my realtor to find an active seller. Likely everyone is too in their own world to care about the effect their environment makes. Broken glass theory is that in a city if a person sees broken glass on the streets, they’re more likely to throw their trash on the ground. Good examples matter and have a compound interest effect.
Chris' Morning Pages 