In 1990, Mike and Audrey Stancil bought a struggling septic service company in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and then built it up to the point where Mike could quit his job with a solid waste company. They had a pretty good thing going until 15 years later when a slight hiccup forced them to make a dramatic change in direction. It was referred to as the “big bang annexation.”“The city took in everybody within 25 miles,” Mike Stancil explains. By the time the annexation project was complete, Fayetteville had grown by 46,000 people, all of whom were hooked up to the
