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Buying a business instead of starting one

Buy a business and you get customers, a place and a name on day one. You also pay for them up front. How to read the seller's numbers, check them, and see what's left for you.

Ticket 01 · Spot the problem

Spot the number the bank won't use

Two years into the shop, Rosa hears a retiring groomer is selling Happy Paws Grooming across town. The seller's summary of last year's earnings has one line a lender won't count. Tap it.

Tap the line with the problem.

Seller's earnings summary · Happy Paws Grooming: pick the line with the problem

Seller's earnings summary · Happy Paws Grooming

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13 min

Buying a business instead of starting one

Buy a business and you get customers, a place and a name on day one. You also pay for them up front. How to read the seller's numbers, check them, and see what's left for you.

Ticket 01 · Spot the problem

Spot the number the bank won't use

Two years into the shop, Rosa hears a retiring groomer is selling Happy Paws Grooming across town. The seller's summary of last year's earnings has one line a lender won't count. Tap it.

Tap the line with the problem.

Seller's earnings summary · Happy Paws Grooming: pick the line with the problem

Seller's earnings summary · Happy Paws Grooming

Sampleexample numbers
This is a sample document. Its numbers are examples, not real figures.
Words to know

Spot something wrong?

Tell us what looks off. No name or email needed.

What kind of problem?

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We'll also send this page, the lesson, ticket 1, so we can find it. Nothing else. Privacy

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Sources and every number

Every number

  • $50example (example number: Simplified example: Happy Paws Grooming, a made-up shop for sale. The cash sales a week the seller says never reached the tax return.) · Simplified example: Happy Paws Grooming, a made-up shop for sale. The cash sales a week the seller says never reached the tax return.
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  • ·Before this: Launch week