Can it possibly be true? Is Post blogger and man-about-Carbondale B. Jon Traylor really comtemplating a move to Denver? Find out in comment #4. “In my line of work,” he blogs. “I have property management firms, some hotels, restaurants, etc. I have relationships with my clients, and I talk to them regularly. Property management companies tell me that their occupancy rates are way, way down. And I know… cuz I have yet to perform work at a single one of their properties since before the Thanksgiving rush.
Restaurants? Forget it. Everyone of them is cutting costs. Hotels?… I’ve had occupancy rates told to me first hand from G.M’s. Their numbers are way down since Thanksgiving. I know of one (unnamed hotel) that literally shut down for a month! And my (local) residential clients? — they all started cutting back early last year when paying record high gas prices and considerably higher grocery prices, etc. I call them on the phone, looking for work…”