Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Seventeen
Joel wasn’t used to public speaking. He didn’t mind it, though, and suspected he may even have a flare for it. He didn’t prepare his speech. He just talked to them plainly, hitting all the points that were on his mind, one at a time.
It must have went well, because afterwards more than a dozen businessmen responded to his invitation to give him their contact information—which in the current times consisted of no more than their name, hotel and room number, or else a local residential address. Unfortunately, only one of them was a property lease holder potentially interested in assigning it. The rest were product retailers. The lease holder’s property was not in a good retail location, and did not have a large parking area where Joel could build an ou
