Not only does Cody Mastin, co-owner of Co-Man Portables, have to be concerned with a struggling economy and maintaining the construction company clients that use his restroom services. But the Whitehouse, Ohio, PRO also has to contend with a group of reputable competitors in and around nearby Toledo and stretching into Michigan and Indiana.Given the crowded marketplace for portable sanitation, starting a new service business proved to be more of a challenge than Mastin expected.“I thought it would be fairly easy, and we’d get up and rolling,” Mastin says. “We had several other companies including one major competitor in the
