Here is my reply to a customer/friend’s inquiry about how
the sale, or possible sale, for this bookstore is faring.
This ministry-which-is-the-store fits a small niche
market. Working it, managing it, and owning it is quite a big commitment. We have
had a succession of parties, mostly couples, interested in the prospect of
owning it. It takes them extended time to discern their decision. Typically
this means checking with family, friends, their priest (or more than one
priest), their congregation, their diocese, their bank, the Small Business
Administration, as well as the bookstore consultants that are helping us with
the process, and with us. Further, if they are moving their residence to
Seattle, they need significant meetings with realtors and more banks. In turn
we have done due diligence with each party and have turned down a few that
would not be a good fit. Currently we have more than one interested party that
are working through their discernment. There is one that looks especially promising
at this time.
I keep trusting that it will surely be in God's time.
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