“They Threw Out a Farmer in Slippers — Five Minutes Later, One Phone Call Shut Down the Hotel”

lobby. He knew exactly who Thomas Garrett was—or rather, he should have known, because Richard Ashford had told the story at multiple corporate meetings.

Richard continued, addressing the stunned audience that had gathered. “Twenty-three years ago, I was a young man who’d just taken out an enormous loan to purchase my first hotel—a struggling property continue reading …