Coastal Debt Resolve Reviews: G&M Fish and Variety’s Story

A real client interview: Food businesses business experience.

He had put everything into keeping his business going. When cash advances added another layer of pressure, Maurice Piper needed a way forward. Watch him explain why he credits Coastal with helping him keep the business alive.

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A business built through difficult years

Maurice describes moving from a long career in customer service into running G&M Fish and Variety. His account includes surviving the recession and later dealing with a serious illness. He then describes taking cash advances and struggling with daily payments.

Keeping the business moving

He says Coastal’s transparency and communication helped him keep going. He describes contacting Angie when a weekly payment was difficult and credits that support with the business continuing. His future plans include rebuilding the business and eventually selling it; those are ambitions he expresses, not outcomes this page claims have already happened.

Full interview transcript

Transcript based on automatic captions, with paragraph breaks and selected obvious spelling errors corrected. Uncertain passages are marked. Timestamps open the corresponding moment on YouTube.

00:07 My name is Maurice Piper. The name of my company is G&M Fish and Variety. In 2008, I used to work in New York and I had a job. I worked for like 20 something years and my job was customer service and I had this friend that would always push me and say, "You know, you used to [unclear in supplied captions: pick up people's poison] and you need to start your own business."

00:34 So, I took my 401k money and I came to Atlanta. And Christmas, December of 2007, I lost that job. Rather than keep looking for job, let me start something. So, that's what inspired me to start and um I made it through the recession.

00:54 I keep going. Then in 2013, I had an experience where I had stomach cancer. So, he kind of set me back and being struggling to keep it going. Think like 2 years ago, I started getting offers for loans from creditors and I took out a few loans.

01:16 Cash advances where you have to be paying back um a daily payment and couldn't pay them. I just had creditors coming after me and trying to threaten to close my business, take my business.

01:30 So, when I found Coastal Debt Relief, everybody has been very transparent and work with me. If I have a issue and I cannot pay 1 week, I'll call Angie and you all will work with me and this really helped me to keep going.

01:50 I would say they're the reason why I still have my business, technically. So, yeah, also taught me never to get involved with these kind of loans anymore because anything you go through in life have to be a learning experience for you.

02:08 Because I vow I would never go back, put myself back in them situations. My mindset is if I have 8,000 extra dollars starting March, I could have four for me and I could put four in my business and do what I have to do to keep going because I'm determined to make this business work.

02:32 I put so much into it. I put everything I had into it. So, at this point, my focus is to try to build it for another 2 years and let it be my retirement funds, if get it up to date and put it up for sale and go have a little fun in life.

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00:03 My name is Maurice Piper. The name [music] of my company is G and M fish and variety. In 2013, I had an experience where I had stomach [music] cancer. So, he kind of set me back and been struggling to keep it going.

00:24 I think like two [music] years ago I started getting offers for loans from creditors and I took out a few loans and couldn't pay them. So when I found Coastal [music] Debt Resolve, everybody has been very transparent and [music] work with me really helped me to keep going.

00:44 They're the reason why I still have my [music] business technically because I'm determined to make this business work. My focus is to [music] try to build it for another two years and let it be my retirement funds if get it up to date and put it up for sale and go have a [music] little fun in life.

The lesson to explore

Separate the current situation from the owner’s plans for the future. A useful discussion should cover what is happening now, which questions remain open and what support is available if circumstances change.

Reported details and interview status

His discussion of an extra $8,000 and allocating money between himself and the business describes a hoped for future position, not a verified savings result.

Take the next question from the story

Use this experience to identify the questions you would want answered about your own situation. The interview is one client’s account; it does not determine another business’s outcome.

Source: Coastal’s original video page and the supplied interview transcript. This is a company selected testimonial. The narrative describes the recording, not a newly verified update to the client’s circumstances.