“He pitched the owner on a structure borrowed from real estate, the lease option… Between a seller note and a borrowed equity injection, he has essentially none of his own money in the deal.”

Elias Youssef · Acquiring Minds · Take Over the Business Before You Buy It

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structured a lease-option style deal: took full operational and financial control via a management services agreement and secured a three-year option to acquire the business, using a seller note and borrowed equity so he put essentially no of his own cash in

run-rate $3-4 M; none of his own money

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