Ghost buster

By Mark Gordon
| 7:48 a.m. May 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs

The ledger was so dreadful at Medallion Homes in the early 1990s that founder and owner Carlos Beruff admits he should have filed for bankruptcy — business and personal.

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