Competitive Strategy and Operations: How do you maintain operational competitiveness against larger chains like Wawa, especially in terms of pricing, service speed, and customer experience?

I am sure there is a way to keep it and speed up the debt payoff piece! 

The remaining funds will help speed up the remodel.

Thank you.You will have to pay a little more if you go the HM route, and for the first one or two if you have a good local, conventional lender that will do that you would be okay, but HML are great for speed, efficiency, and some quirks, depending on the lender.It might also depend on your capital and how much you are wanting to spend on the first one.

out of state investing in a distressed property is possible but very difficult and extremely risky. fastest way of losing money project.

Right now I am liking pickle-ball courts as it is the fastest growing sport in the US.It is very, very important to understand all the revenue and expense variables and then to have peers cross-check your analysis.

Fastest way to good income would be to leverage that $130k into $1M or so depending on experience level and start flipping 4-5 houses at a time or find a partner to do that.  

Service outages, speed, etc. 

I don't think the model is bad, just not happy with the speed of service.

We just made the INC 5000 list for fastest-growing mid-size companies.