So when I own uh I buy this one uh monthly is my for my business adding uh value. So yeah I request who doing business uh buy thing is better. It was probably best for me to own so that I could be able to make those decisions that I couldn't make in a leasing situation. And because we had kind of outgrown that space, that was a choice I made.
And I felt like I was in a position where what I was leasing for, I could afford to buy and still be able to do whatever I wanted to do. We definitely have learned more and more as it pertains to property due diligence as time has gone on. When we first started, we didn't really know what that even meant. When we looked for our second building for our production facility, uh we didn't know we had a budget for those things until they were coming.
So then we had to do some quick adjustments to our um financial situation, financial package. But those things add up and those are before you even get to purchasing a building or getting a lease out there. So, some of the things that we negotiated are um the maintenance, who's going to take care of what in in the lease, the cost uh of what the per square footage of the the building uh negotiated that with the owner. Um, one big thing that we uh negotiated was not having a similar business in the in the plaza as us.
So, they can't lease it out to another restaurant or another store that's similar to to what we're
