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21 Months to Stability Buying a $1.2m SDE Business

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Jan Roll bought a $6m residential contractor, a harrowing experience he calls one giant ambiguous ball of figure-it-out.

Topics in Jan's interview:

Contracting means learning 25-30 trades

Margin of safety in a residential construction business

Value of paying vendors immediately

Engendering trust in a low-trust industry

Revenues dropping 25% in first year of ownership

Using ROBS to buy the business

Pitfalls in contractor licensing

The harm in not having an employee agreement with a business partner…

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