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by Willard Michlin
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e market value at that time.
We then found a buyer for the worse of the two buildings and made a deal with the Small Business Administration, to lower the interest rate and payments on the remaining building. Those payments are about 30% of current market rents today. By making those very low payments, the lender who is on the building and the business equipment was happy. The result of all this was that Jonathan was able to keep his factory running and make just enough to pay his current living expenses.
Then the creditors, eight of them, started suing Jonathan, one after the other. Each tried to take the assets of the business. There was nothing to take. Some tried to go after the commercial buildings. That failed as they had been sold. One tried to go after the house. I arranged for someone friendlier than the bank to buy the bank's judgment at a discount and hold it until it doesn't make any difference. The bankruptcy attorney said we would never get away with what we were doing. He said that Jonathan needed to file Bankruptcy. Jonathan decided that he trusted my ability more than the attorney's advice. It has been 3 years now and all is quiet on the northern front. Jonathan and Janet are now 84 years old, still healthy, and still in love.
Everyone thinks that his or her problem is un-confrontable and therefore unsolvable. I have found that someone other then myself can solve my un-confrontable problems in 10 min and I can do the same for them. It is not a question of being smarter, or more experienced, though experience helps a lot to come up with easy solutions quickly. It is really that we all are willing to confront someone else's proble |
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