Year of Change
The last 9 months or so, and the last 6 months in particular have seen a lot of changes for my family and me. It started late last year with the collapse of the real estate and construction industry. My business, Vignette Studios, is directly tied to it, so therefor my business collapsed as well. Between Nov. and Jan. I let all of my full time employess go, and converted on part time employee to a contract employee. I also accumulated a lot of debt trying to stay afloat last year. Then in January, I was forced to move out of my office location of almost 10 years into my home. Move number one. Now we have our home under contract (which only took two months) and are preparing to move in a couple of weeks. Move number two. For now we will be renting a home, with plans to build another home next year in Midori. It has been a lot of stress needless to say.
Now for the good news. With the sale of our home, we will be able to work out of most of our debt. I have also been renegotiating a lot of it. So in only 6 short months, we will have most of the bad stuff behind us, and can focus on the future again. Vignette Studios is slowly starting to come back to life. I am also continuing to work on Midori, and will hopefully be able to start development work on it later this year or early next year (subject to funding of course). I am also working with a local developer and financial partner on restarting my home building company to build homes on his lots as will as in Midori and other projects. We are already getting some good interest in that without even advertising. More to come on that one. So while it has been a difficult year, our family has pulled through, held together and perservered to get through it. Now we can look forward to a new beginning, and pray that we don’t see another recession like this again. I am also aware that there many other firms and people that are in for worse shape than us, so I am thankful for that.
