Acquisitions Anonymous - #1 for business buying, selling and operating - $2.4M Brewpub for Sale: What Are We Thinking?

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

Would you pay $2.4M for a brewpub in Albuquerque? We wouldn’t—and here’s why.Business Listing - https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/flourishing-taproom-for-sale/2345707/📢 Episode ...Sponsors: 📈 Check out Capital Pad, the platform for acquisition entrepreneurs and investors—standardized terms, simplified investing. Get started at https://capitalpad.com.Thinking about owning a franchise? Connor Gross is your go-to expert—join his newsletter or attend a Gateway to Franchise Ownership workshop today. Learn more below!In this episode, Heather, Bill, and Michael dissect the listing for a taproom in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that’s asking $2.4 million for a business generating $300K in cash flow. With the real estate not included, the team breaks down the economics of owning a brewery, dives into the intricacies of taproom licensing in New Mexico, and debates whether this is a hidden gem or a real estate play in disguise. Spoiler alert: the numbers don’t add up. From licensing laws to market rent assumptions, this episode is a deep dive into the realities behind the romanticism of owning a brewpub.Key Highlights:Asking 8x EBITDA for a taproom with questionable profitabilityReal estate valued at $2M not included in asking priceDiscussion on current contraction in the brewpub industryInsight on liquor licensing workarounds in New MexicoBreakdown of potential mispricing and market rent blind spotsPerspective on real estate being the actual asset over the businessThe risks of unsophisticated sellers and brokers in these dealsEvaluation of business scalability and margins in taproomsSubscribe to weekly our Newsletter and get curated deals in your inboxAdvertise with us by clicking here Do you love Acquanon and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show! Follow us on Twitter @acquanon Learnings about small business acquisitions and operations. For inquiries or suggestions, email us at contact@acquanon.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 A lot of the owners do it for the fun or the prestige of it rather than the profitability. So I always kind of look a little bit differently at these kinds of deals. It ranked number one in bars and pubs for Albuquerque on TripAdvisor. So I think it's a good location. It seemed to have a good reputation. But of course, Heather, you're exactly right. Like, this is a tough business like any restaurant is a tough business. This group up is probably losing a little bit of money.
Starting point is 00:00:30 when market rate rent is being paid. We'll start Acquisitions Anonymous. Hello, another episode of Acquisitions Anonymous. We don't have 100% beers anymore. I can thumbs downing on just the plus inventory alone. Welcome to Acquisitions Anonymous Internet's number one podcast about small businesses for sale. Today, myself, Bill and Heather analyzed a thriving tap room for sale up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. go. So super fun one, crazy asking price, and I think we'll let you know what we thought about it
Starting point is 00:01:06 through the course of this episode. So stay tuned, check it out. Hey, everyone, it's Bill. And I want to tell you about maybe the most exciting sponsor we've had in a long time on the pod. It's called CapitalPad. And it is the thing that I wish existed when I started my journey of operating and investing in small businesses. So CapitalPad is a marketplace for acquisition entrepreneurs. That is, people who want to buy a business and need capital to list their deals and solicit capital from other people who want to invest in acquisition deals. So if you want to back somebody buying a small business, CapitalPad is a place to do it. And if you want to buy a business and need capital, you can go on CapitalPad to be introduced
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Starting point is 00:02:28 go check out Capitalpad.com and tell them that Acquisitions Anonymous sent you. Heather, how is loan volume? Are things up or down post-liberation day? We've been liberated from our loan volume. It's down a little bit. It is down a little bit. It's not terrible. It certainly caused some deals.
Starting point is 00:02:54 to there's deals out there that are exposed to tariffs and they're just not going to transact right now. So put a lot of things on hold. And in general, it's just kind of a little bit down to flat. Still, you know, still good stuff coming in the door. But it is a time of uncertainty, I think, in terms of deal making, you know. So the general kind of vibe was if a deal is heavily tariff exposed. People are just like, let's just wait and see because it's tough to underwrite, tough to know what's going on.
Starting point is 00:03:23 Exactly. You just have to wait and see. The buyers are want to wait and see. And frankly, the lenders will want to do that too. Even if you got a little bit further down the road and we put that in front of a lender, they're all going to say the same thing. We don't know the effect yet on this kind of business and we're not willing to lend until we at least know. So it has kind of been a bummer for those kinds of deals, those kinds of the sellers, especially if they've been working on a deal for a while. And then just in general, I think there's just uncertainty about other industries as well. You know, there's just, it's just a tougher time to project what the future is going to look like. Yeah. I think it's one of the things people struggle with when they start to analyze businesses is, okay, you need to remember this is a, people are trying to estimate what the future cash flows are of this business and then pay a discount for that based on what the risk is going to be. and instead people get really wrapped up in what do comps look like what are rules of thumb what is this and that and like those are all just ways of backing into ideally what are the future cash flows
Starting point is 00:04:29 of the business so yeah i hear you yeah exactly so it is uh we'll see we will see but it does things are still okay yeah well the good news is you know if we're gonna it's a good time to actually make some mistakes in the economy we're going to have bad leadership in washington now's a good time because the economy was pretty good yeah yet i think everybody is was surprised by how resilient and resistant the american economy was to stupid stuff and outside factors and we saw that in covid where like yeah i mean sure as you know fixed asset prices went up like crazy when we injected all that money in the economy but by and large like the fact we only had nine percent inflation or whatever was kind of a miracle. Yeah, really. It was. Yeah, it was. And it is,
Starting point is 00:05:19 when you work in small businesses like I do every day, it gives you a lot more confidence in exactly what you just said, how resilient things are, where people do continue to spend that might surprise other people. But, you know, it all keeps working. Nothing just stops. Even in COVID, it didn't completely. So yeah, I think we'll be okay, but it's a little bit tougher to make some of these deals come together right now. Well, Capital finds a way. And speaking of Capital, Bill D'Alazadro is here. Newly liberated from business ownership.
Starting point is 00:05:49 Congratulations. Sorry, I'm late. Thank you. Yeah, this is my first acquisition is anonymous after selling my business. Well, so I was thinking about it. I was like, I hope Bill comes today because I'm expecting him to be making offers on everything. Everything looks great.
Starting point is 00:06:04 Yeah. Is this a bar? Oh, great. So this is a listener, listener suggested. Because I guess he watched my video about breweries and brew pubs. So he was like, well, I know a lot about this. So I'm going to see you this deal. So we have this deal.
Starting point is 00:06:21 And then I think he had sent me some comments via Twitter as well. So I'll bring those up after we read the deal. But this is a flourishing tap room for sale in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And they're throwing in the meth lab for free. That's it. For free. Well, it's flourishing. It does kind of have that look to it.
Starting point is 00:06:39 If you're not watching on YouTube, you may not catch that joke, but you should check out the look of this place. It does have that look. Albuquerque was where Breaking Bad was filmed and located. So hence the Meth Lab joke. But yeah, Heather, how would you describe this pictures of the brewery? It looks like, well, from the outside, it looked like a 1970s house of some kind. And the inside, it looks a little bit more interesting, I guess. I mean, they've got all the tanks.
Starting point is 00:07:06 and, you know, it's a very not fancy kind of place. So I would hope that the claim to fame is really good beer. I guess that's the vibe it gives me, I hope. It looks like they got a fair number of tanks. I mean, they must be doing decent enough volume here. Yep. To use an old, old person term, this is kind of ramshackle is how it is, just associated different parts put together.
Starting point is 00:07:32 Can we not say ramshackle anymore? Are we giving away our age by saying that? I don't think I don't I was in I was in a one-on-one with Robin my chief staff earlier and I said something and she's like yeah people don't talk that way anymore greatly I was like I got it from the millennials like I thought I was hip because I got it from the millennials those people aren't hip anymore you're you got to move one more generation closer to hip my kids give me a really hard time you know I find a funny video I show it to them and they go that was two years ago mom All right. So let me tell you more about this brewery. The asking price is $2.4 million. Sorry, I'm a little giggly today. It's not going to take much to make me laugh.
Starting point is 00:08:17 $2.4 million for this thing. Cash flow is $300,000. So Bill GPT, they're asking. 8X. 8X cash flow for a brewery. All right. Moving on. Gross revenue is $1.8 million.
Starting point is 00:08:32 FFE is $200,000. They have $50,000 in inventory. and the real estate is $2 million, not included in purchase price. I was like, well, maybe they included the real estate. Nope, they're not. I was thinking maybe there would be a whole bunch of FF&E, but there's only $200,000. So, all right, keep going. Inventory?
Starting point is 00:08:52 It was established in 2016. And it is called the 377 brewery. It is a rare investment opportunity in the booming craft beer industry, and the established brewery stands as a testament to innovation and quality blasting, boasting a strong brand, loyal customer base, and impressive growth trajectory. They put a video here, a YouTube video, which is kind of a first in a long time. I think the last time we saw that was maybe the pizza boat. I love it, though.
Starting point is 00:09:21 I love video. I mean, this looks like it's more of a marketing video, but I've seen a couple times where sellers have done a specific YouTube video for the sale, like showcasing the business for sale, interview with the owner, et cetera. I think it's actually really effective. I like when they do it. Yeah. Yeah, when we sold our coffee business, we did like a 20 minute interview with Clint Fiore,
Starting point is 00:09:41 the business broker, where he just basically asked us questions and myself and one of the other owners, like just answered. Did the first 30 minutes of the management meeting after the introductions, we just did that as a video so they could give it to people before we had the at the first. What was the feedback on that? People loved it. Yeah, positive. And it probably scaled you guys too, saved you a lot of time. You didn't have to the same call 20 times.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Yeah, I mean, you just went through selling a business. How many times have you, well, I don't know, you didn't run a broad process. We didn't run a process. We had a proactive outreach, but didn't have, you didn't have to do the management meeting tour, which I've, I've been on before. After the 14th or 15th time you do it, you're like, okay, like you ask your business partner to do the next one. All right.
Starting point is 00:10:23 So I noticed something in the video, though, which is that it's not just a brewery. They also have food. So this is a definitely a kind of tap room food, you know, kind of your classic microbreau in Albuquerque. It's got fries. They got burritos, burgers look good. You know, a place to go hang, eat some food, drink some beers.
Starting point is 00:10:42 Seems great. It looks cool. I would totally hang out there. Yeah. Tell us more. What else do you know? Yes, I would hang out here. I would hang out here.
Starting point is 00:10:54 I would hang out here. It looks nice. Yeah. What else do we know about this? All right. Let me tell you some more. It's located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. inventory is including an asking price the real estate is owned but the owner is not
Starting point is 00:11:06 including in the asking price the building square foot is $8,000 and it employs 26 people FF&E is included and it includes a fully equipped kitchen setup with award-winning recipes three walk-in coolers ensuring optimal food storage a 20 beer tap system for an extensive draft selection refrigerated display beer cooler to showcase premium viewers versatile seating arrangements including tables, booze, bar stools 9 50 inch TVs outdoor patio area furnished distinctive horseshoe bar enhancing the venue's character in a climate-controlled environment featuring a swamp cooler and refrigerated air system. Classware plates, utensils, and cleaning
Starting point is 00:11:42 supplies for smooth operations. The competition is good with positive cash flow. What does that mean? They felt out the wrong field. The brewery industry offers significant growth potential fueled by innovation consumer trends and operational efficiencies. It also faces challenges such as intense competition, regulatory hurdles, and the complexities of scaling operations. Strategic planning and agile adaptation and market trends are essential for sustained success. There's limited financing available and there is transfer training optional. After eight years, my business partners and I are ready to retire and enjoy our time. The business is currently an established franchise.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Whoa. That's not right. So I saw that and I Googled it. You can search for the 377 brewery and I don't see any other 377. Okay. Those are the typos here, I think, for a few mistakes. Yeah. I mean, unless this is like the type of thing where like it's like a white label
Starting point is 00:12:42 franchise or something where they teach you how to, you know, here's all the recipes for the beer and the food and call it something local so people want to come. I don't know. But I don't think this is a franchise. There's a lot of interesting stuff to dig in on this. Heather, where would you like to start? Well, it's priced a bit high, okay? It is a restaurant.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Okay, it's a brewery restaurant, but these are everywhere. I don't think that there's anything, you know, that you can say is particularly unique here. And so I think it's priced really, really high. It's always a tough industry to be in food service. When I worked for a particular bank, we had a vertical that was focused on beer, wine, craft beverages. And I learned a little bit about that space in that a lot of the owners do it for the fun or the prestige of it rather than the profitability. So I always kind of look a little bit differently at these kinds of deals. You know, they're often not very profitable. And in this
Starting point is 00:13:49 pricing doesn't make any sense to me. So I'm so far not too excited about this one. So let me try to make you a little bit more excited. I agree. But so this is, I looked at the location. This and I also found a news article that because this is publics for sale, this was covered in the Albuquerque Journal. It is apparently the number, it ranked number one in bars and pubs for Albuquerque on TripAdvisor. And it is right near the airport, which I think in Albuquerque is a good spot. and it's near a bunch of hotels and other restaurants.
Starting point is 00:14:29 So it does seem like the location is really good. It's right near the Air Force Base, the Kirtland Air Force Base as well. So I think it's a good location. It seemed to have a good reputation. But of course, Heather, you're exactly right. Like this is a tough business like any restaurant is a tough business, right? I mean, it's just, and now the margin on beer are probably better, but the margins on food are thin and like the hours are tough.
Starting point is 00:14:54 you know, just this is the restaurant business. This is a, this is a tap room, not necessarily a, you know, a brewery that's making can beer or package goods. Mm-hmm. Yeah. The other thing that I think, I mean, obviously the price at 8X, like that's, goes without saying that's too high. But the other thing is the market for breweries is going through a contraction right now. So we had this huge over-expansion of brew pubs on every single corner, right? you know, local IPAs everywhere as far as the eye could see.
Starting point is 00:15:26 And now they're contracting. I have seen several of these for sale in my town, which in Charlotte, which is a boom town, no offense to Albuquerque, but relatively. And I mean, they're going for like the price of the tanks. I mean, it's like, it's brutal because the whole world is over brew pub. Now, not to say that this, maybe this is a good one and a good location in these people, And this brew pub deserves to continue to exist, right? But it's, I just think like the buy or build question here is tough in brew pubs right now.
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Starting point is 00:16:29 So as he's sponsoring today's episode, everyone should totally click in the show notes below to join Connor's newsletter and attend one of his gateway to franchise ownership workshops. If you're ready to move and move quickly, schedule a call with Connor and his team today. I mean, I know folks that have built brew pubs that look generally just like this. And they don't make their own beer, but they'd sell other people's beer at a low margin and do pretty darn well with it for any kind of a beer garden type thing. And the reason it works so well for them is basically the husband is like Sherlock Holmes for finding cheap used equipment to rebuild the whole thing. Like he just went, he went and recreated this whole thing in a lease space for
Starting point is 00:17:12 probably $200,000, just because he was like at every auction when a restaurant went down. He was networking with everybody like, hey, oh, you're you're shutting down. Can I come by your taps? Like he was that guy. And they're killing it. But that's because their invested capital is 240,000, not $2.4 million. And they're not making beer, like you said. So, I mean, there's a whole cost to brewing your beer.
Starting point is 00:17:35 And that was a pretty good, that photo they showed. I mean, I don't know how many square feet it is in their, in their space. where they actually have the tanks. But right there, yeah, that's a lot of investment. That's not just investment in the equipment, but in the time it takes to brew, to bring in the ingredients. They've got to hire people who know what they're doing to make it taste right. That gets pretty expensive.
Starting point is 00:17:57 And I think that's the tough part about especially this type of food service business. Yeah, I mean, to me, because of that, like the buy, then build, like what's the value in the equipment? To me, this all comes down to the lease. Right? It's like, what are you buying here? The name, the location and the ability to stay at the location. Because, I mean, let's be real. Like, if you want to start a brew pub, it's going to cost you way less than $2.4 million. So the only, I mean, way, right? So the only assets here are the name and the lease. So the first thing I got to know is how long is the lease? It says it sounds like they've been there for eight years. If they're on a 10-year lease, that's tough. Oh, it's its own. real estate, Michael. Thank you. Yeah. Interesting. But they're not selling it. Not selling it. They, they want you. So they're going to make you pay market rent. They'll give you a longer term, probably, but they'll make you pay market rent. Yeah. Well, but that's okay. As long as you burden
Starting point is 00:18:57 the financials for the business with the market rent and price it appropriately, I mean, if anything, if anything, this is good because you have the chance to get a really long lease. Yeah. You know, this is way better than walking into a lease that has two years left on it. You know, and in that situation, this business is not transactable, essentially. But I look at a lot of financial statements. And when the real estate is owned, I can't tell you it's very few times that the earnings are fully burdened for market rent. And a lot of brokers don't catch that in their listing. They'll list it for the, you know, EBITDA that is before market rent.
Starting point is 00:19:35 and then you've got to come along and discount it. So it's always something that sticks out in my mind. When I see that they own the real estate, I automatically presume that the broker missed that, missed burdening it for market rents, and that you're going to have to do it. You're going to haircut it further. I could be wrong here, but it happens.
Starting point is 00:19:52 I'm sure you're right. I mean, but to me, they've already priced this at 8x EBITDA. Like, you've already got to have a pretty serious repricing conversation. Yeah. So, like, the question here is, like, can this business, clear the market at all. Like the bid ask spread is going to be massive. I mean, the ask here at 2.4, like, I think the bids have got to be, you know, three to 500K, like one to two X, I would think, assuming the 300k cash flow is burdened with a market rent. I mean, if it's not, good luck.
Starting point is 00:20:25 Right. I will bet you dollars to donuts when you look into this, this group up is probably losing a little bit of money when Marks. market rate rent is being paid. I've seen this so many times where it's just like, oh, this is a passion project. And the numbers just happen to shake out this way because, well, that's, oh, this is market rate. This is what we're doing. But in reality, like, there's no way you're finding a spot for what these guys
Starting point is 00:20:51 have been paying a rent, just no way. If they are separating rent, which is a big question. Sometimes they don't even do that. So let's say, though, so these guys, I'm going to presume, bought this real estate and the building eight years ago and opened a brew pub in it. right they have basically land banked this real estate for the last eight years you know cash flow at the very least let's say it's breaking even right they've paid the mortgage with the brew pub at the very least is it possible that this is the type of situation where they should close the brew pub
Starting point is 00:21:23 lease it to something else at market rent and sell the real estate for a massive gain probably the highest and best use yes that's what that would be yeah yeah so it's possible these guys, I mean, it's ironic, but I've seen it in so many small businesses over the last decade of Buzeri interest rates, right, in the United States, is that the real people make all the money in the real estate. The business, like, whoopsie, the business is barely worth anything compared to the real estate we bought. And it could be very well the case here. The business is worth functionally nothing, but they've made a four-x on the real estate. I've handled some transactions with clients where the seller didn't think their business was worth anything.
Starting point is 00:22:04 and therefore they just sold it as real estate. You get to have the business for free. Here's the real estate. So what's interesting also is assuming that you need to sign a new lease here, the sellers could really screw themselves over if they sign a lease with buyer, not at market rate, right? So like this is like a classic like accidentally cut off your nose to spite your face, like trying to sell your brewery, put a below market lease in there for 10 years or whatever,
Starting point is 00:22:39 and not realize that based on cap rates, you just nuked the value of your real estate. Yeah. You know, by way more than you would have gotten if you just charge the business and market rate. Right. Yeah, and that brings up another point. How many sellers don't know the relative values of their enterprise versus their real estate before they go to market? The proof of that is when people do. a sale lease back when they're actually able to get a signed LOI for a combined price.
Starting point is 00:23:09 But the reality is they're actually getting the real estate at below market. And then they're able to go do a sale lease back and take the net gain as cash. That's basically, that's the use case for a sale leaseback is somebody's actually been able to get the whole thing under LOI. And technically they're getting the real estate below market. Sellers often just don't know the relative values. Yep. And which is why you should have a broker who knows what they're doing instead of trying to sell your business for sale by owner. That's correct. And it better be a good broker because I have seen this happen with brokers on the deal.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Oh, really? Yeah. You'd be surprised what I see. Yeah. I mean, but isn't it true, Heather? Like there's this entire like asset class of, there's this entire asset class of capital that basically goes around. around trying to find unsophisticated sellers. And I don't want to put too strong a point on it, but rip them off. Yeah. Right? With a deal structure like that where they can sale lease back the real estate at closing and be plus a million dollars or something, fada bing and everything else is gravy. Like there's, that's a huge part of what search is.
Starting point is 00:24:22 That's correct. I mean, whether I would use those exact words or not. I know. I was pretty sharp on it. Below market, whatever. But yes, absolutely there. I see transactions that are just like that, that have happened with and without brokers. So, you know, it's unsophisticated sellers, but also unsophisticated brokers combined
Starting point is 00:24:43 that can still result in a deal like that. I got a couple of data points from the guy who shared this deal with us, Michael Simpson, and I put it up here on the screen. One data point is this is a tap room, which basically gets around the limitations on local bar licenses in New Mexico, which are very limited. and buying a liquor license to open up a bar costs $500,000,750K if you want to open like a neighborhood bar in New Mexico. It's crazy. He says number two, the asking price is ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:25:13 No way the real estate is worth $2 million and it's not included in the purchase price. Number three, their margins are pretty good. But they're in like a weird Goldilocks zone where they're not big enough to produce such that could, you know, do it scale off-premise consumption. but they're big enough that it's like you've got a big nut to kind of crack in terms of making sure you cover your costs with this amount of equipment and stuff. So, well, so that's interesting. So a liquor license in New Mexico is 500K to 700K, 750K? Does that mean that they have one of these or that it's a backdoor to not need one of these?
Starting point is 00:25:52 This is a backdoor version. They don't have one. Okay. So they can only serve beer. So they can't serve wine or liquor, I assume. And maybe can they only serve? their own beer? Is that part of it? I wonder. Sounds like it. I don't know. Like if you produce the beer on site, you can serve it without a license. Interesting. Oh, interesting. So they have to brew it.
Starting point is 00:26:13 Mm-hmm. Which is probably expensive, right? Yep. Yeah, well, it says the margins could be good. It says the margins are good for beer served on tap because you can, it cost to brew a glass of beer is about 50 cents and you can sell it on tap for five bucks. So that's good. But, but, But he also goes on to say that the problem is, like, you probably sell that same pint of beer, you know, at retail for five bucks over the bar, but 75 cents wholesale. And also that, you know, they, it's so hard to scale up a canning and bottling operation, you know, especially in a saturated market. So I just think this is tough.
Starting point is 00:26:52 I mean, someone wants to describe to me like brews and restaurants as like rich man's folly. Like everybody wants to own one, you know, open their own broad. restaurant, but actually what people want is to be the best customer at an already existing bar or restaurant, which is massively cheaper and way less headaches than starting your own. You can just go in there a couple times a week and tip really well, and it's basically the same experience without all of the millions of dollars up front. Cool. We are coming up on the witching hour of 25 minutes.
Starting point is 00:27:22 Do you guys want to rate this deal? I'll start with you, Heather. What do you think? Well, thumbs down. tough business to be in. I don't know how you make money. And therefore, if you can't really make money, how are you going to sell this?
Starting point is 00:27:36 For me, I'm a thumbs down. No meth lab. I'm out. Maybe there is a meth lab. That would be awesome. If this is a front for a meth lab, it's probably a great business. Okay.
Starting point is 00:27:46 So one time I joined a board of a for-profit company and we're like 15 minutes into the board meeting. And I made, I mean, it was a small board meeting, but I made the joke. I was like, well, Whoa, I thought this was a drug front. We're in real business here?
Starting point is 00:28:02 And anyway, it set the tone for future meetings. We had a good time. So anyway, no meth lab, Bill. What do you think? I mean, I'm out just because it's a bar or restaurant. And I'm out on functionally all bars or restaurants. There's just such hard businesses. I mean, if I'm going to buy a business, there's just so many years of ways to make money,
Starting point is 00:28:22 then borrow a restaurant. Brew pub or not or whatever. It's just tough. question is, you know, does this sell at all? And I'd be pretty surprised. I think you've got to look at it through the lens of the real estate and the lease. And I'm not sure this is the business that can pay the highest rent on this parcel, which means that whatever you put here, if you put this business here, you're impairing the value of your real estate. So if I'm the seller here, I figure out what is the type of business that pays the most rent on this parcel? I find a way to get that business on my
Starting point is 00:28:57 parcel and then I sell my parcel on that note all right we'll we'll shut this episode down uh we'll put a link to the the listing below in case you want to check it out and you're in albuquerque and you know a place to put your meth lab and drink beer this may be for you uh otherwise i think it's a pass for your hosts we'll we'll be on to the next one all right if you would like to well so michael i didn't realize there was a acquisitions anonymous ex community that i was not even invited to uh that you just shared on the live stream but i just joined it um If you go to the community's tab on X and search for acquisitions anonymous, you will find us. You can hop in there and, you know, you can also just tweet us broadly, but you can also get in there with other listeners in the X community, apparently now that I'm in there.
Starting point is 00:29:42 Thank you, Michael. Heather, I don't know if you're in there either. I'm there. I was invited. You were invited? Yeah, I was invited. I totally invited all three. Man.
Starting point is 00:29:52 I was watching the Lakers game on TV and I was like, I'll just start a community. and I just started click a button and invited you guys. Man. Okay. Well, now that I'm there, it's not cool anymore. But if you all are listening, you go find it on X. It's called Acquisitions Anonymous on our communities. Maybe we'll see you there.
Starting point is 00:30:11 Come see you.

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