The owner of the heating company had a couple of kids in daycare
My wife and I opened a daycare business a couple of years ago. We decided to open the daycare business out of our home, because I knew it wasn’t going to cost a lot of money. We could save money by not having the overhead and expenses of an actual daycare building. We started out with two or three kids and then we had five very quickly. Suddenly everyone that worked with me wanted to know if my wife was available for daycare services. We could have had 25 kids in the first 3 weeks, but we didn’t have any place or room for the children. That’s when we decided to look for space in Elgin, Illinois for the daycare center. We were living just a few minutes outside of Elgin, but I knew the city was the perfect place to look for real estate. We found a run-down building that was in a great location. There was a lot of water damage to the building and it needed a brand new heating system. We could have rented a place that would have been cheaper, but I saw potential for the building. I contacted an Elgin heating company to see if they could help us with the daycare center heating problems. The owner of the heating company had a couple of kids in daycare. We worked out a deal with the heating company owner to watch his kids for a 6-month period for free in exchange for the work on the building. Honestly, I think that we got that much better end of the deal. His kids were young and very well behaved.