No SBA Loan and $75k Out of Pocket

No, but operationally, I mean, not really.

I mean, so he, like I said, he's a real estate agent and he plans to specialize in selling homes to be vacation rentals in our area. And so we talked about having a partnership and we still talk about that where he can channel business to me and I can do the same to him. And so, yeah, I very much see us as, as business partners.

Great. Megan. Well, I only have you for a few more minutes and still want to hear about your ownership, your operations of this business and what's happened since you closed in May of last year, 2025. Right. And you had told me that after your long experience and years of desire to buy. Just give us the psychology of getting over the final psychological hump.

My whole life been envisioning that I wanted to own a business. And over the last, from 2019, you could say when I went to business school through 2020, 25, when I bought my company, had envisioned myself buying a business, and did a search, grueling search. And then at the final hour, I had this moment of holy, you know, do I really want to.

Is this really what I want to do? Like, what if? What if when I get into the seat, what if when the ink dries, I have this realization and it all sinks in that this is not. This is not what I want to do.

And it was all wrong. And I don't know, I just had this moment of dread. I had the same feeling when I bought my first house.

For whatever reason, I really wanted to buy a house. I had done the inspection, everything was in line with what I thought it was and wanted and was dreaming of. And then, I don't know, when it came down to the closing day, I was like, is this the biggest mistake of my life?

For whatever reason, maybe I just feel that way with big decisions. But luckily, when I got in the seat, I, you know, everything that I had known to be true was true. I'm very happy. This is what I want to be doing.

It's a hundred percent. Yeah. What. It's very validating that all the things I dreamed about, that I thought I wanted are actually what I want. So. Felt very happy about that.

I think it's easy when you're fantasizing about something to romanticize it and idealize it, which is kind of what a fantasy often is. And then when you're confronted with actually making the dream a reality, it's like, oh, what if it just doesn't measure up? And how could it? Because you've probably been idealizing it the whole time.

So I just wanted you to share that, Megan, because, you know, for all the other folks out there who might experience a similar, you know, moment of. Of. Of cold feet.