Posts tagged 'businesses for sale'

Willard Michlin, CPA discusses the tanning salon industry and how it pertains to the current state of buying and selling this type of small business.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Business Valuation Issues, How To Buy A Business, How To Sell A Business

Financing a business purchase has become more difficult in the past couple of years. But buyers and sellers of small and mid-sized businesses are finding other ways to raise the money needed to complete their transactions. BizBuyFinancing.com Founder Peter Siegel, MBA explains this topic.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Business Purchase Financing, How To Buy A Business

There are a handful of key asset categories in allocating or breaking down the purchase price allocation of a business sale. The allocation is required to complete the transaction. Lee Petsas, a Southern California business broker reviews this topic.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Buying A Business, Deal And Escrow Issues, How To Buy A Business, Selling A Business

BizBen searchers looking to buy a business found a Christmas lighting service, a matchmaking company, golf products manufacturer, and several types of restaurants. See what searchers found most interesting on BizBen.com yesterday.

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 Categories: BizBen Top 20, Buying A Business

Buying a liquor store? First, ask yourself these three critical questions to find out if owning a liquor store is right for you. Peter Siegel, MBA with BizBen.com explores this topic.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Buying A Business, How To Buy A Business

Hiring a good lawyer is very important because they can have a great amount of input over the success, or lack of success in purchasing a business. Southern California business broker Ron Hottes gives his perspective on utilizing attorneys when buying a small businesses.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Buying A Business, How To Buy A Business, How To Sell A Business,

BizBen viewers top search requests on BizBen.com included a Oakland Gas Station/C-Store, a San Diego Car Audio Shop, a Laguna Hills Pizza Parlor, a San Marcos Internet, Wholesaler, a Cypress Arco Am/PM, as some of the more popular California small and mid-sized businesses for sale that were added and reviewed by business buyers, business brokers, agents, intermediaries, and business owners yesterday on BizBen.com.

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 Categories: BizBen Top 20

The laundry business model and the full justification of value of the business are based on its anticipated longevity. In this blog/article industry specialist Chuck Post covers the topic of coin laundry valuations.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Business Valuation Issues

What the seller of an interesting business will accept, what his "hot buttons" are, what they are willing to negotiate about; these are all facts that come to light when an offer is made. Peter Siegel, MBA the Director of the BizBen.com discusses some practical advice for business buyers.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Buying A Business, How To Buy A Business

Darleen Sweet is with Central Escrow, Inc. discusses delays and solutions when beginning the escrow process when buying or selling a business. Darleen is a bulk sale specialist specializing in business for sale escrows in the Orange County area.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Business Broker Issues, Business Buyer Experiences, Buying A Business, Deal And Escrow Issues, How To Buy A Business, How To Sell A Business

Fewer small businesses were sold in California last month compared to April 2010 figures. Sales for the year, however, are up nearly 12.5% for 2011.

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 Categories: Business For Sale Statistics

The BizBen.com Index reports that the volume of California small businesses sold last month hit a 22-month high. Improvements in access to financing and buyer confidence are major factors.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, BizBen News, Business For Sale Statistics, Deal And Escrow Issues

Pent-up demand helped to push the number of sales of small and mid-sized California businesses sold by business brokers, agents, and business owners last month ahead of the February 2010 figures. The growth was aided also by an increase in SBA loan approvals statewide.

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 Categories: Business For Sale Statistics

Gas station for sale in California news: If you've ever conducted even a single search on BizBen, you see virtually every kind of business for sale by category every day. But very few of them actually provide opportunities for the savvy buyer to have another company help them enhance the property once the sale goes through. With the WRAP program, buyers of gas stations now have incentives to purchase a California gas station.

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 Categories: BizBen Blog Contributor, Business Purchase Financing, Buying A Business, Small Business Issues

Selling or buying a small to mid-sized business is serious business so BizBen took a recent survey about three groups important to the process of buying/selling a business: small business owners/sellers, business buyers, and business brokers & agents.

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 Categories: Business Broker Issues, Buying A Business, Selling A Business

Described in various ways, as licensed care homes, assisted living properties and residential care facilities, these enterprises can be very profitable and offer substantial potential for growth as the market for their services expands.

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 Categories: Buying A Business

Today I received a call from a potential business buyer who had industry experience was trying to buy a RV dealership and needed financing to complete his transaction. In the eyes of the SBA his small business was too big to qualify for business purchase financing.

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 Categories: Buying A Business, Small Business Financing

This year’s trend, showing an increase in each month’s number of sales of small and mid-market businesses in California, continues with more completed transactions in May 2009.

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 Categories: Business For Sale Statistics

Today President Obama reiterated his belief that we owe it to America’s small businesses to be the partner they need in the midst of this crisis. At SBA, we couldn’t agree more. “SBA this week is implementing two key provisions laid out in the Recovery Act – we are temporarily eliminating certain loan fees and raising guarantees on some 7(a) loans up to 90 percent. With these critical steps by SBA, and the Treasury Department’s commitment of up to $15 billion aimed at getting lending markets flowing again, we are standing up with small business owners across this country and telling them how we are going to put much-needed capital in their hands.

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 Categories: Business Purchase Financing, Small Business Financing

370 California small to mid-sized businesses were sold by business owners, business brokers, & real estate agents for the week of March 2, 2009 through March 8, 2009.

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