E307 - With My New Rent, I Will Clear Nothing

This week, we start with a business owner who’s just learned his rent is jumping 40 percent and who sees three options: accept the new rent and essentially work for free, move and start over, or shut down and get a job. But when Paul Downs, Jay Goltz, and Ted Wolf do the math, they see another option—one the owner doesn’t seem to have considered.

From there, the conversation turns to the choices owners make when the answer isn’t obvious. Paul, as it happens, is wrestling with two of those himself. Before the year began, he devel...