Budget Home Center soon to become Budget Home Supply
By Daily Times-Call, Longmont, Colo. | |
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And this week,
"This is our 30th year in business in
He said it was his son-in-law,
Part of that, he said, is because of his location.
"We had a lady came in yesterday, we sold her some new cabinets, and she said she'd lived here nine years and she never knew we were here," Vernon said.
After starting at
The night he closed on the property was the same night he found out
But he and his staff have hung in there, he said, by keeping prices competitive and maintaining the store's mom-and-pop atmosphere.
Angelo, who's married to the Vernons' daughter, Vernetta, who also works in the store, will be taking over the business when Butch and Bev retire.
"I had planned to do that in a year or two, but this put that off," Butch said.
The "this" he refers to is September's flood, which spilled the
The building took on the water and the floor and some of the display areas were ruined. Outside, where large amounts of lumber and decking material is stored, the damage was even worse, Vernon said. Some of the lighter wood, such as cedar, was washed on downstream by the water. For the heavier woods, Vernon said his staff power-washed it -- about 25,000 pieces, he said -- to salvage what they could.
"We had a great big storage building and I found that over on
He estimated that the store suffered about a half-million dollars in inventory damage, "and about another half million to do a remodel.
"It set back my retirement a few years."
He did have flood insurance, Vernon said, but that covered his buildings only.
"You can't buy contents or inventory (insurance) for flood," Vernon said. "You can for fire, or if a windstorm came and took it out, but it excludes flooding."
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