Thanks for all the advice. I have been looking at quicken, but there are a few others that look good, too. :? I have a bad habit of trying to process way to much information all at once.
I am having my building custom built. The building itself should be finished around Thanksgiving and we are trying to make sure the parking lot and drive thru can be finished soon thereafter so I looked at the calendar and started freaking out, lol. I think I have everything under control, then moments of terror strike. My husband was able to snag up a GREAT location at an even better price. We are close to the high school, which has an open campus lunch, around the corner from the hospital, not far off the interstate, and they are renovating the building next door putting in medical offices. We are also on a main hwy leading out of town that gets lots of early morning traffic from blue collar workers and anyone heading to Odessa or Midland (closest big towns).
The biggest draw is the fact that our little town is mostly small privately owned small businesses and most of the restaurants are Mexican food or burrito shacks or fast food stuff like McDonald's or burger king. We have no coffee shops, no place that serves what I will be serving, and everyone is super excited that I'm doing this and I keep hearing the same thing from everybody, they wish they had better options than fast food or Mexican food. I'm going to do pastas, soups, salads, and sandwiches. So, the concept is good...just gotta nail the execution....which is terrifying. But if your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough, right?
Hopefully, God willing and the creek don't rise, I will be opening The Clockwork Coffeehouse in mid-December, in time to catch some of the holiday shopping season, and in time for the Jan/Feb cold weather in these parts. My whole thing is to make it kind of steampunky, lots of clocks and gear work, a lot of metal accents in copper, bronze, and brushed silver. My building has a vaulted ceiling with exposed rafters and crossbeams that will be fun to decorate with all kinds of fun funky stuff. I was able to snag a heckuva deal on equipment from a coffeeshop going out of business on the other side of the state...She had to close for health reasons so she sold everything as a package deal. I feel like God has been guiding our hand along the way and opening doors and paving the way leading us in the right direction so I'm optimistic. The biggest worry my husband has is in my ability to get up that early and be functional, lol.
I'll go look at Quicken again and try PMing the other members mentioned. Thanks for the information.