Christian Brothers Automotive- Our Story

We bought our first home in December of 2011. A beautiful brickrow townhome in The Lakes of Blaine (Minnesota). We rented it out for the last five years or so. I had a dream / plan of moving back into it after our kids were grown and out of the house. Emily showed interest in selling the home, especially recently and especially as we’ve talked about the possibility of using the profit we would gain to start some kind of business. It was late February or early March 2019 and Emily and I began to talk a little more about the possibility of starting some sort of business. We had very little direction. I applied to become a Chick-Fil-A franchisee a couple years ago. That’s like winning the lottery, and I didn’t make it. I briefly looked into Pizza Ranch since I knew some of their corporate employees. It was far too expensive and I didn’t have a strong enough interest anyway. It seemed like just the day after Emily and I prayed about possibilities that someone reached out to me on Faceb...