false 2009-02-13T12:04:47-08:00 <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We are Scott and Mindy Saunders.&nbsp; We&nbsp;both grew up in small towns in Idaho and later&nbsp;moved to Salt Lake City UT to attend the University of Utah.&nbsp; After four years of the city life and having our first baby boy, we decided that we&nbsp;wanted the same small town lifestyle for him.&nbsp; That was when we decided to move to Monticello, UT and start our own business.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott&#39;s brother, Brett, had&nbsp;worked for tire companies&nbsp;for close to&nbsp;twelve years and was ready&nbsp;to start something on his own.&nbsp;&nbsp;Coming from&nbsp;an&nbsp;entrepreneur type family, I knew&nbsp;the dedication and sacrifice it took to start&nbsp;a business.&nbsp; Although,&nbsp;I knew it could be done.&nbsp; Scott and I have always been the type to pay off our debts and live&nbsp;within our means.&nbsp; We have always worked hard to have good credit.&nbsp;&nbsp;Along with school, we were both holding full time&nbsp;jobs.&nbsp; It was our goal to&nbsp;graduate from&nbsp;college debt free.&nbsp; We&nbsp;owned two nice vehicles and a scooter and had everything paid off.&nbsp; We&nbsp;knew we had to&nbsp;make sacrifices to get started.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I decided to sell my &quot;dream car&quot; and&nbsp;my scooter which I loved and had worked so hard to pay for.&nbsp;&nbsp;Scott and I had a garage sale to&nbsp;sell all the things that we could live without.&nbsp; When all was done, we&nbsp;had just over $15,000.&nbsp; We were left with one vehicle and a small uhaul full of&nbsp;the necessities we needed.&nbsp; As my husband puts it, &quot;doing one of the scariest things we&#39;ve ever had to do.&quot;&nbsp; Off&nbsp;we headed to our new home and big dreams.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The first things we did was buy two service trucks, set up accounts with distributors, get business&nbsp;cards&nbsp;made, and&nbsp;market, market, market.&nbsp; We&nbsp;knew that this was all or nothing!&nbsp; We had visited Monticello and&nbsp;had done quite a bit of research in the&nbsp;area.&nbsp; We had started out as&nbsp;a 24 hour commercial mobile tire service.&nbsp; The summer worked out great&nbsp;for that, but knew that as winter came, the agricultural&nbsp;and semi tires would slow&nbsp;down.&nbsp; There was an old service station in town for sale that we had had our eyes on for quite some&nbsp;time.&nbsp; We met with the owner and set up a really good deal with him, asking if&nbsp;he would let us use&nbsp;the shop in trade for&nbsp;capital gains.&nbsp; He agreed&nbsp;and we spent 2 straight months fixing it up.&nbsp; With the shop, we are now doing oil, windshields and light mechanical work.&nbsp; As of today, we are ahead on our business plan and we feel very fortunate that we didn&#39;t have to get a loan to start.&nbsp;We know that determination&nbsp;is&nbsp;the key.&nbsp; You have to believe that you can do it and anything is possible!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> cU1x8Ws1Kqllvkab8P4pmk false true false 2009-02-13T12:04:51-08:00 0 true 1 false true false 1 Our Success Story 2009-11-23T04:51:43-08:00 bbuVe3s1qqllvkab8P4pmk mindysaunders 1392 0 dY1Ghod6ZhRBWr3AL8abBw