The Brothers that just do Gutters NW-Houston, Texas Franchisee, Randy Garrett was featured in a local paper, Community Impact. See an excerpt below!
Oil decline leads to business startups
Layoffs impetus to new entrepreneurial ventures in Cy-FairBy Danica Smithwick
About 99,000 oil and gas workers across Texas have lost their jobs since oil prices began to decline in 2014, according to data collected from economist Karr Ingham’s monthly Texas Petro Index report. That number accounts for one-third of the industry’s workforce statewide.
One of those 99,000 workers was Cy-Fair resident Randy Garrett, who worked in finance most of his career. When he was released from his accounting position at Burckhardt Compression, a compressor manufacturing company, he started thinking about buying a franchise.
In September, Garrett officially opened the first Cy-Fair location of The Brothers That Just Do Gutters, a New York-based company.
“Between waking up and going to sleep, I’m always thinking about what to do next and how I can do it better,” he said. “You’re tired, but you don’t think about not wanting to do it anymore. At this point, it would be really hard to go back.”
Read the full article HERE.