Instead of moving in, RFC is buying another historic house just down the road at 5263 Plymouth. “After many months of conversations with Sava, and a lot of stipulations on both sides, a lot of exploring of options, we decided that it was best for everybody to sell to her,” Rautiola says. Meanwhile, they discussed a lease with Sava Lelcaj Farah, who owns Sava’s and Aventura restaurants downtown. The spot had been used as a restaurant since 1928, and Rautiola figured they’d need to spend at least as much on the fix-up as they did to buy the building. Last December, RFC moved into a construction trailer on the site, so they wouldn’t have to shuttle back and forth to their downtown office while overseeing the renovation. The plan, he says, was to renovate “half of it for our business and maintain a lot of the historic character as best we could.” They’d lease the other half “to somebody else, and preferably a restaurant, and that’s how the conversation with Sava started.” Last year, the company he co-owns, RFC Financial Planners, bought the Dixboro roadhouse that was most recently Roger Monk’s, but remains best known from its long run as the Lord Fox. “We almost got to the point of renovation when Sava approached us in the fall,” says Michael Rautiola.
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