LA MESA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A La Mesa mom and daughter team are looking for a new place to do business after they say a rent hike is forcing them out.
Dolores Bulle and her daughter, Deanne Ross, spent years working side by side running, Act 2, a boutique in La Mesa Village that resells designer clothes and accessories at an affordable price to customers.
“My mom started the store 42 years and we’ve been at this location over 35 years. I’ve worked in this store my whole life, I graduated from San Diego State and continued to make this my career,” Deanne Ross said.
Bulle says she never imagined her business would become so successful, but over the years she’s developed a very loyal customer base that walk or take the trolley to her store in search of quality clothes at good prices.
“We pride ourselves on having really inexpensive clothes that are high-end designer clothes that people can buy here and with the price of everything going up including the rent, we just can’t do it anymore. I can’t pay those high rent prices,” Ross said.