Who knew that renovating old roadside motels was a thing?
Ryan and Melissa Faircloth, two North Georgia grandparents, certainly didn’t when they bought an empty 11-room motel in Trenton, nestled in the shadow of Lookout Mountain on Highway 11.
“I drove by it every day. I kept telling myself, ‘I’m going to buy that one day,'” said Ryan Faircloth, 47, a full-time real estate investor and former dumpster company owner.
His wife, Melissa, 44, a real estate broker, didn’t initially share her husband’s enthusiasm for the low-slug strip of rooms that had been vacant for more than a decade.
“I can’t say I was honestly, 100% sure about buying it,” she said.