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Buying a Business? Read the Lease Carefully!
How do Lease Terms Impact the Business? If you’re buying a business, what should you look for in the lease? Well, that depends. Let’s examine some of the issues. The most obvious one is the
Buying a Business’ Real Estate
What are the Pros and Cons of Buying the Real Estate with the Business? If you’re buying a business, should you buy any real estate that the business owns? Well, that depends. Let’s look at
Business Brokering: How to Handle Real Estate
What do you do if real estate is involved in the business sale? This is a question we get all the time. You meet with the sellers; you find out that either the business owns
Business Brokering: The Value of Co-Brokering
What is “co-brokering” and why is it important? The answer to the first part of that question is that co-brokering is the concept of working with other brokers. The answer to the second part is
Episode 10: The Owner is Taking Cash Out Reducing Value
Episode 10: The Owner is Taking Cash Out Reducing Value If you own a business that takes cash and you are “liberating” some of that cash – that is, not declaring it – you are
Business Valuation: Discretionary Earnings
Like all professions, the Business Broker/Business Advisor profession has its own keywords and phrases that, in many case, our clients don’t immediately understand. “Contract work in progress” is one such phrase as is the term
The Price Is Right – or Is It?
American readers of a certain age will probably remember the game show, The Price is Right, in which contestants tried to guess the price of merchandise, and its host Bob Barker. Some of the shows
Episode 9: Being a Business Broker; An interview with Greg Gill.
Episode 9: Being a Business Broker; An interview with Greg Gill If you’ve ever considered becoming a professional business broker and advisor – or if you’re considering selling your business – you should listen to
The Value of The Valuation
How Can You Determine the Value of a Business? “What’s my business worth?” This is a question we get nearly every day. Whether you’re selling one, buying one or acting as a broker for one,
Business Broker: How I got started
People often ask how – and why – I became a business broker. Well, here’s the short version. (There is a much more detailed story of my journey to business brokering stardom but that will
