We graduated from Cal Poly SLO and were married in 1972.  We spent 30 years in various positions in software in the Bay Area, Portland, OR, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL and back to the San Francisco Peninsula in 1997.  When software "high tech" imploded in ‘02, we found ourselves unemployed within 3 days of each other.  Catherine was born and raised on a farm in the Santa Barbara area and I was born and raised on a farm in the Shasta Valley area.  So we’d grown up in self-employed families and always wondered what / how we might work for ourselves.  Was this the "kick start" we needed?????

We spend several months catching our breath and researching different possibilities including franchise opportunities, and Roy getting his Flight Instructors Certificate renewed and Instrument Instructors Rating.  Furniture Medic showed up high in a couple of franchise surveys we read.  It met several key criteria: it wasn’t fast food, it didn’t immediately require employees, and it involved something we enjoyed doing – working with wood.  In the past we’d built furniture for ourselves and refinished and finished furniture for ourselves and friends.  Sounded like a fit to us! We completed training and opened the dooor in October ’02.  As they say, the rest is history.

Catherine does the majority of precision repairs and stripping and refinishing (she lets me do the cleaning and lifting!).  I do the majority of answering calls, scheduling, move inspections and claims, and insurance claim inspections.

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