{"id":28648,"date":"2017-03-05T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=28648"},"modified":"2017-03-05T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:26:18","slug":"lehigh-financial-group-arranges-financing-800000-purchase-mountainhome-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=28648","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Financial Group Arranges Financing For $800,000\u00a0 Purchase Of Mountainhome Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>New Owners To Maintain Menu, Amenities<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Allentown, PA \u2014 Ownership of the Mountainhome Diner and Ice Cream Store in Monroe County has been transferred to a Whitehall Township couple, thanks to financing arranged by the Lehigh Financial Group in Allentown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Ali and Etab Abullattif took over operations of the popular Route 390 restaurant on Feb. 14, and Ali Abullatif praised Lewis Edwards and the Lehigh Financial team for their assistance in obtaining the $800,000 Small Business Administration loan to finance the purchase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">\u201cThey were wonderful. I have done refinancing before but they made the process so easy,\u201d Abullatif said. \u201cIt went as smooth as a waterfall. They took care of me, they took care of all the paperwork and they answered all my questions even before I asked them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Abdullatif, who has been a restaurateur throughout his career, said he plans no changes to the Mountainhome\u2019s menu or atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">\u201cEverything is staying the same,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that it could be any better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Lewis and colleague Jeff Barber specialize in working with new and growing businesses and owners to help them obtain financing for real estate purchases, capital equipment, refinancing and other needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPress Release By:<br \/>\nJeff Barber<br \/>\nLehigh Financial Group LLC<br \/>\n1244 W. Hamilton St.<br \/>\nAllentown, PA 18102<br \/>\nPhoto of Ali and Etab Abdullatif provided by Lehigh Financial Group.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/lfg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}