Acquisitions Anonymous - #1 for business buying, selling and operating - Would You Buy a $3.3M Taxidermy Company?

Episode Date: July 14, 2026

In this episode the hosts analyze a rare $3.3M revenue taxidermy business in Reno, debating whether its niche positioning and loyal customer base outweigh the challenges of buying, operating, and even...tually selling such a specialized company.Business Listing – https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/premier-taxidermy-for-sale/2447323/Welcome to Acquisitions Anonymous – the #1 podcast for small business M&A. Every week, we break down businesses for sale and talk about buying, operating, and growing them.Looking to build a professional website in minutes? Try Wix: https://wix.pxf.io/c/6898629/3115214/25616?trafcat=templateHubSpot is the backbone for how businesses scale without chaos. Try them out here: https://go.try-hubspot.com/OeG9VrSubscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@AcquisitionsAnonymousPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.acquanon.com/newsletter💰 Sponsored by:Acquisition Lab – Your fast-track to business ownership. Get hands-on support, world-class resources, and join a top-tier community of acquisition entrepreneurs. Schedule your free consultation at https://www.acquisitionlab.com and mention Acquisitions Anonymous!CapitalPad is a private equity co-investment group for lower middle market deals. Accredited investors invest in searcher and independent sponsor transactions on a deal-by-deal basis, with minimums starting at $25K. Acquisition entrepreneurs with a deal under LOI can raise equity through CapitalPad's single-SPV structure, closing with one partner and one wire. Raise capital or invest at https://capitalpad.comThis week the hosts review one of the most unusual businesses ever featured on Acquisitions Anonymous—a taxidermy company in Reno, Nevada generating $3.3 million in annual revenue with an asking price of $1.6 million. While the listing provides almost no meaningful operational details or profitability metrics, the hosts dig into what could make this niche business surprisingly valuable.Key Highlights: - $1.6M asking price on approximately $3.3M annual revenue, with no profitability disclosed.- Discussion of why taxidermy is a highly specialized, relationship-driven business built around skilled artistic labor.- Exploration of Reno's strategic location serving trophy hunters across Nevada and California.- Debate around working capital, customer deposits, transition risk, and the difficulty of selling niche businesses.- Strong criticism of the listing's generic description and broader discussion about ineffective business brokerage marketing.Subscribe to  weekly our Newsletter and get curated deals in your inboxAdvertise with us by clicking hereDo 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 Welcome to Acquisitions Anonymous. Michael here. Today's episode was super fun. Mills and I did actually a taxidermy business in Reno, which I insisted we do because we've never done one before. After 500-odd episodes, we've never done taxidermy, and I was just fascinated by the whole thing. Stick around to the end.
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Starting point is 00:01:17 All right. Everybody's live. We're optimizing for entertainment just so that everybody knows. And so we're like, is there a lot to talk about on this deal versus another one? I don't know. And Michael just teased me that this is going to be amazing. I know we've never done one of these before. So it's pretty straightforward. So it may be because a business like this has never sold before or been listed before. Yeah. I mean, I thought your mind would be blown on this.
Starting point is 00:01:46 So this is on that picture. You have to stop what you're doing and get on YouTube right now. It's pretty unbelievable. This looks like something that would be in like the like a museum. pretty much yeah there is what is this it's like an axis deer it looks like staring up into space and then there is a leopard flying in and they both appear to be stuffed animals and not not plushy toys stuffed animals these are taxidermy animals it's yeah so that's this deal so let me read it to you it's a premier taxidermy for sale located in reno nevada washoe county the asking price is $1.6 million.
Starting point is 00:02:30 They do not talk about profitability, which is kind of like, I wish they had talked about profitability. You know why, though? It's probably because they have like 90% that margins. They're like, we're not putting this out there. Let's see if they tell us more. Gross revenue is $3.3 million.
Starting point is 00:02:51 So. That's a lot of animals get stuffed. Yeah. All right. Business description. The company is a long. standing specialized production firm known for handling highly detailed custom projects for a diverse range of clients. With decades of operating history, it has built a strong reputation for its niche, for precision, workmanship, reliable turnaround times, and technical expertise that is difficult to replicate.
Starting point is 00:03:11 Its services are consistently sought by individuals and organizations nationwide, supported by a steady mix of new and repeat customers. Operations are conducted in a fully equipped facility with a trained team capable of managing complex hands-on production processes from start to finish. They have established systems, quality controls, and experienced staff, ensure constants that output and high customer satisfaction. Ownership is preparing for retirement as well to provide a smooth transition period for a new owner. This opportunity is well suited for a buyer seeking a niche,
Starting point is 00:03:40 established production business with a strong brand recognition and a loyal customer base. Do we have a moment for a rant? This summary is such a disappointment. I could not write two paragraphs that said less than these two paragraphs do. Like there's nothing in here. There's no numbers. There's no specifics. Literally, you could have written this about any business. You could have written this about a mortuary. And it'd be like, yep, that's exactly what they do. Sounds about right. Yeah. Sounds right. Oh, you install mufflers on high performance automobiles. Yep, that's exactly what
Starting point is 00:04:14 they do. Like Denise seems like a very nice lady based on her photo. She's the broker. But literally, this thing says absolutely nothing. Nothing about the business. Well, and it's interesting because the website is very generic too. It's M&A business advisors. Yeah. Is the group that she's with. And it seems like this is definitely a target market for them. If you look at businesses for sale and you go to that market, all it does is give you the list of advisors, which they all look very nice and very professional.
Starting point is 00:04:51 And then when you go to her page, it doesn't even have a list of the businesses that she, selling. Yeah. And I know these business brokers are not motivated to find, to find more buyers, right? The consistent problem with being a business broker these days is finding good deals and then getting them done. But it's almost like these guys are keeping them a secret. Yeah, they really are.
Starting point is 00:05:15 It says call our office to find out what's for sale. I'm wondering, though, but we found it on biz by sell. So I'm going to go to her biz by sell profile. Okay, she has two on there. A custom slab fabrication business with real estate available in Reno, which I think is like slabs of marble. And then, and then this taxidermy business. Is the custom, okay, let's put, I'm going to pull up the custom slab. Is this just an old?
Starting point is 00:05:43 Holy shit, dude. It's the same two paragraphs. Word for word. No, it's almost identical. Yeah, see that. predictable work while a team capable of managing the company's core functions. Yeah. And let me guess.
Starting point is 00:05:59 The owner wants to retire. Yeah, it's basically just the same word salad. And at least in this other one, they do disclose the SDE. Yeah. But I mean, how you think about it this way. Like if we invert this, how little do you have to say that is unique to this listing to like make it completely jump off the page? It is an amazing business that does something that's so unique.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Say like two things. Say like the average order value or like that you've done it for, you know, celebrities that you can't disclose. Like you can say little nuggets of things without really like disclosing anything company specific. And you would immediately like blow the socks off people. It's just such low effort. Now, it makes me wonder, is the seller doing this?
Starting point is 00:06:46 Is the seller making them stay so vague? I don't know. it seems like their other listing is vague, and then their website basically doesn't tell you anything about even the businesses for sale. So no. And this firm has a ton of brokers. Yeah. Like you would think that they,
Starting point is 00:07:03 you know, actually are trying, they want, they want, um, you to register as a buyer, um, to kind of pre-qualify.
Starting point is 00:07:13 And it is, if you go back to their website, I mean, this is, it's probably 30 questions that they want you to answer. And most of them are, required. Buyer.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Oh, this is it. I click on this buyer registration. Fire registration, yeah. Man, this is a big firm. They've got offices all over the west. Yeah. But then isn't it funny? Like, this is such a like lower, like, main street list of questions.
Starting point is 00:07:36 Are you currently employed? Like, you could have sold a business, you know, and have $100 million in liquidity. And you're like, no, I'm not employed. And they probably, like, won't qualify you. Oh, man. When I was doing lower middle market work, we would, you know, a lot of times we would try and cover like more mainstream business brokers because you just never know. Like maybe you'll get a diamond in the rough. And like these, you know, when you're when you're used to working with like a traditional investment bank that works in the lower middle market, like they know about confidentiality.
Starting point is 00:08:14 They, you know, are not asking you for crazy stuff. they know that you don't have proof of funds, right? Like, plenty of people in this segment of the market will ask for proof of funds. Like, they want you to send a screenshot of your bank account. Well, a fund is never going to provide proof of funds. Like, it just doesn't work that way. Right. But you would get people who are like, send me a copy of your driver's license.
Starting point is 00:08:33 And it's like, I'm in South Carolina. I'm looking at a business in California. I don't think my driver's license is going to help you, you know, and I'm not giving you my social security numbers. Wow. And, I mean, the interesting thing about this website is somebody, has clearly spent some money on SEO, because you see all this stuff here. All the tag words, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Yeah, there's somebody who's spent a lot of money on that. There's, here you look at all these blog posts selling my business in Los Angeles, what every owner should know. And this is totally AI, LLM, like SEO. Somebody puts some effort into this. It's just fascinating that they just don't put the effort into actually saying anything about the businesses. I mean, especially because the business itself.
Starting point is 00:09:17 is like anything but disappointing. It seems epic. Yeah, and I, you know, I pulled it up basically because I was just so excited by the title. And then you open it up, you're like, oh, this is like you're not really trying. So, well, from a first principle standpoint, do I want to be in the tech? Well, okay, let's step back. Some people may not know what taxidermy is because some of us don't go out on the weekend, like yourself, and shoot Bambi.
Starting point is 00:09:41 So what is what does Tachshadermi do? You're just saying that because I have a beard. Yeah. So taxidermy, like, obviously the picture that's up here of this leopard and this exotic deer, somebody spent a lot of money like traveling to a foreign country in order to hunt these things. They spent a lot of money on like special draw hunt permits and licenses to be able to hunt these animals. And a lot of these animals are like cultivated on Texas is like blowing up with these. exotic animal hunts where these properties will on hundreds and thousands of acres, they'll put up high fences, like 20 foot tall fences, and they'll raise exotic animals there
Starting point is 00:10:29 so that you can go hunt like, I don't, I've never heard of anybody like killing an elephant in Texas. But there's some other kind of crazy exotic species that, of course, go big or go home. It's Texas. But it saves you the trip, you know, like you don't have to go to Africa. You don't have to go to Southeast Asia to hunt something like this. So that's the backdrop. You spend all this money, whether you're doing it, you know, domestically or abroad, to kill one of these animals.
Starting point is 00:10:55 And then people will spend definitely more than tens of thousands of dollars getting taxidermy done on something like this to put it like in their trophy room. And I mean, that is a tale as old as time. Like people have been doing that kind of thing for thousands of years. have you ever been to somebody's house where they have like a 7,000 square foot house and then there's just like stuff like this picture right where there's a leopard and i've been in a guy's house that has a room that is thousands of square feet several thousand square feet that has over a million dollars worth of taxidermia in it like full size bears upright you know like massive massive animals that have all been you know stuffed and I don't know though like I'm curious is this this is probably a bad example but is this like a tattoo artist where you're like I you know I don't have any tattoos but like I have a tattoo artist they do all my work like I don't care if they move to another city I'm following there like them there to go get another tattoo years later is a taxidermy person the one like are you kind of like look I don't care whether I
Starting point is 00:12:05 killed like a duck or a leopard but like I have a guy he does all my work I mean this seems to indicate and given this amount of taxidermy, they have to have a team doing it. It talks about that here in the word salad. Operations are conducted a fully equipped facility with a trained team capable of managing complex hands-on production processes from start to finish. That could be either, you know, the description of this business or your local Taco Bell, like one of the two. That's a handcrafted team. I would think at this level of revenue, right, as 3.3 million, this has got to be more one person can do even even at like a very very high average order value for something like this so i do think it's probably multiple people and it's probably one of those things where it's like the
Starting point is 00:12:53 singular kind of famous artist expert with a lot of helpers because this is like a very i mean you somebody's bringing you an animal on ice and you are then breaking down this animal into something that now cannot be like spoiled so that it can be stuffed permanently and people are very specific about what they want this picture is an amazing example people don't just get like the leopard you know like looking like a little cat and like licking its paw this leopard is like about to just claw this deer to death you know and somehow they have it flying through the air so there's some kind of metal thing holding it all up which to me is like wow that's an art I did Google, well, I didn't Google it. I asked Claude what are typical prices for
Starting point is 00:13:44 talcadermy. And I said, well, give me the prices for like a deer or a bear. And there are multiple variations of the mounting. So you can do what's called a shoulder mount. Yep, yep. Which I don't understand. Then there's the European mount, which is I guess the one where they just chop off the head and it's a skull and antlers only. And then the full body mount can be three to $8,000 for a deer if it's like a full deer. And then for bears are probably like a third more expensive than that. A full body mount could be $10,000 plus with large bears like the grizzly or brown bear reaching the higher end. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:20 So I think, you know, let's just say even if they're crazy expensive and their average order value is $20,000. This is still a lot of actual projects going on on any given year. And I do think it's multiple people. I love, you know, I mean, this is just like the most generic description ever. so I don't really trust anything that they're saying. But at least they're not like, you know, it's a relocatable business. I'm curious about the location being Reno. Like, is there something about the clientele close to Las Vegas, like that lends itself to this business in that location?
Starting point is 00:14:54 I'm just not sure. Let me ask, Claude, why would you put a taxidermy business in Reno, Nevada? I'll let it work on that. Well, I mean, I think the first thing is to be proximity to money is what I think. According to Claude, it makes a ton of sense. There's a huge amount of hunting and fishing demand. We haven't talked about fish yet. It sits as, Rita sits at the gateway to a lot of that country.
Starting point is 00:15:18 It also hits very close to Sierra and California's eastern hunting zone. So you're pulling customers from two states. There's a lot of trophy quality game that Namada is known for, including mule deer and trophy big horn sheep tags, exactly the kind of animals people pay to mount rather than just process. Trophy hunters are the bread and butter of profitable taxidermy. And then, as I said before, proximity to wealthy clients, tourists of an out-of-state hunters, and a good business climate.
Starting point is 00:15:45 And there's less competition relative to demand. It feels like other areas like, you know, Southern California and Northern California would be much more, much more kind of overbuilt. And interestingly enough, dry climate. are actually good for hidework. And it peaks seasonally, peaking after the fall hunting season. So cash flow management matters.
Starting point is 00:16:10 Claude wants to know, I mean, give you this, are you thinking about this as a potential business or acquisition? Hell no. So wow, Michael, you really jumped the gun
Starting point is 00:16:20 on the thumbs up, thumbs down thing here. Before we come back, let's talk about this is a good business. You want to be in or not. So if I buy this, what am I buy in here?
Starting point is 00:16:31 you're, I mean, you have to be an artist. This is an artist-centered business. And at this size, you are, you know, you're not the only person who's performing the work. This isn't just like a solo operation, a one man or one woman show, but you've got to manage like a team of artists. And if people are spending this much on this, like, it's going to be very specific and very demanding. Like if you accidentally, you know, mount this thing wrong or, you know, you mess up. And I think there's a lot of like touching up and kind of things like that that happen in this process. But I don't know. It just seems like it's very finicky and very high stakes.
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Starting point is 00:18:31 check out Capitalpad.com and tell them that Acquisitions Anonymous sent you. You got to imagine it's easy to screw this up. There's also, if you buy this business, like you're hopefully buying a team that knows how to do these things, as I've been doing them for decades. I got to imagine also, like most blue-collar type jobs like this, the number of young people who are coming into this industry is not very high. So I think labor is something you're also buying here. This train team is probably a big chunk of it. But I think you're also buying the customer relationships.
Starting point is 00:19:07 It's like having bicycles or boats or vacation homes for these people. How many taxidermy stuffed bears should you have? Well, however many you have plus one. That's basically the right answer to that. That's the algorithm they all have. And so I bet repeat client is a huge deal for these guys. I did just look up other, you know, taxidermy sites for sale. And there's the next one that comes up is a $249,000 listing that is now off market,
Starting point is 00:19:45 but it was in Ridgeway, Missouri. And it's like an 1,800 square foot space. They don't provide any like revenue info or anything. But it just seems like these are very few and far between. This other one is basically being sold as a piece of real estate and you get the business along with it. I kind of wonder what made this one so big. This is this. I did the math.
Starting point is 00:20:08 And if you say an average deal size is $7,000, they're doing about 500 animals a year. Which is not small. Like they've created an interesting market. And this picture that they show here may be kind of the giveaway, which is like perhaps this is like, really high-end complex stuff for the people who are paying 10, 15, 25,000 to have art created for them. It makes me wonder if that's the ditch for this business. It's interesting. In searching, too, there's another person who had listed their business for sale like a few years ago on like hunting chat.net, you know,
Starting point is 00:20:45 and they're trying to sell their established tax termine business. This is a very old listing. and it looks like he's, you know, he was looking for $29,995. But one of the things he mentions this kind of interesting is work in progress, which we haven't talked about. But, you know, everything that this person is working on right now, they've probably received deposits on. And there's an expectation from the clientele that, like, you know, Fred is the one who is like, the face and the name of this business and probably like the iconic person who's working on it. You've got to figure out like what is the working capital like?
Starting point is 00:21:29 What is the transition and customer relationships like for something like this? There's a lot of different. I didn't even think about the work in progress component because these things don't happen overnight. They take a while. And it's got to be the case that you're taking deposits. So there's a whole working capital type thing. It's very easy for businesses like this to be behind on cash flow and working off customer deposits. borrowing against future revenue, if that makes sense that they haven't worked on yet.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Yeah. But again, I come back to this. All these other ones you list are small, like random Jimmy in a little rented space. These guys are doing nearly $3.5 million of taxidermy in Reno. It's like, what's going on? Like, that's a lot. It's a lot. I just keep looking now at like how few taxidermy businesses
Starting point is 00:22:22 there are for sale, you know. So you're also buying that. I mean, there's just, there's just not a lot of competition. It's not necessarily easy to start one of these up. If somebody goes all the way to Africa and spend $75,000 or $100,000 on a hunt, and, you know, I think you've heard some of the stories about some of those hunts where, like, they find the animal, the zebra and they like, there's two guys nudging it out into the field and you pull up your gun and shoot it. That's the way some of those hunts go.
Starting point is 00:22:53 It's a real sport. And then you come back to the U.S., you're not going to trust that carcass to just a random. Somebody you're going to drop $10,000, $20,000 to get an artist to do it, which, like, that's pretty tough to copy. Like, you got to like that about this deal. So I've got an interesting thing that just came up. I'm going to switch and share my screen.
Starting point is 00:23:14 I'm going to take over. Oh, we're having audiovisual component to this podcast? This is ridiculous. So look at this, Michael. I found this when I was looking, but this is called first class trophy, taxidermy and logistics. And what just came up is this is a business that was founded in 2008. And they've, since their start, they've grown to be the largest taxidermy company in Europe. Their headquarters is located in Denmark and they're represented in Sweden, Germany, plus we have admin support through South Africa and Namibia.
Starting point is 00:23:47 they have like what looks like a really nice four minute long YouTube video that I'm not going to play because there were animal sounds that started right away. But what's interesting is they are looking for, it's not quite like a franchise model, but they are looking for partners in all these other countries to grow and kind of leverage the brand that this company has, but then have people kind of, you know, on on the ground, so to speak, in all these different places. And like, look at these brochures. I mean, this looks like really well done. there's like pricing um i wonder if there's trophy so this is like you can go partner with the hunting guides to become an affiliate and stuff like that it's really good okay so here we go 50% deposit when they confirm your order uh here's the routing number and everything uh for sweden um priceless for mammals here we go whoa oh my goodness this is amazing baboons bears of certain sizes
Starting point is 00:24:47 Wow. This is so cool. Bush pigs, beavers, buffaloes. So the most expensive thing on the list is a bison. And this has got to be in, yeah, euros. So just doing a shoulder mount bison is 1,540 euros. Okay. So that's where they just basically chop it off with the shoulders, mounted up.
Starting point is 00:25:09 That's cheaper than I thought. But like full mounts. So like a full mount of a European moose is $9,800. euros. Wow. This is fascinating. All right. So who should do this deal? Golly, the sample size gets so small. I think it's like it's somebody who really loves hunting, who's already in the Las Vegas or Reno area, who, I don't know. I mean, is, are they going to run this business the same way this person has? Probably not. Like, that's a really, really difficult person to find. Like, they have to have enough money to buy the business. And they have to buy the business. So, business. They have to be hands on and detail oriented enough and be willing to spend like a lot of hours running this business. And they also probably have to be in the right geography. And I don't know. It just seems like it's a really, really difficult like for the stars to align on this.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Yeah. Because you're, I mean, you got to be somebody who wants to be in this community. And that's all I can think about. You want to be in the hunting community. You want to be in the online forums. What was what did you say? the name of it was like Bambi killer.net. What was the name of the hunting for? Hunting chat.net. Oh, I took chat. I got taken to hunt when I was a little kid by a relative and we're out and they
Starting point is 00:26:31 wake me up at like 5 a.m. You go sit in a deer blind and an hour in. I'm like, let's not kill Bambi. Where are we going to shoot Bambi? And then an hour in, I was like, can we shoot a deer now? This is so boring because we're just sitting there. Can we shoot a deer so we can go inside? This is so boring because it's 1981.
Starting point is 00:26:52 It's just not much going on. Okay, so we think this deal needs somebody who's a hunting nerd and has money and wants to get their hands dirty with all this stuff. And, you know, like you've got to be working channels, working SEO. Like, it's almost like a unicorn, like, to find this person. I don't know how you do it. I mean, I know a lot of people who like hunting, who, you know, they intentionally are like, I like taking my deer to a processor so that I am not like having to do like all the butchering and the processing and like turning all this into, you know, like the meat that my family's
Starting point is 00:27:27 going to eat. So this just seems like an even more niche subset of that. I think this has got to be up there in terms of like some of the most highly fragmented businesses. Like nobody from South Carolina just kills like a regular deer in South Carolina and takes this, you know, takes their deer to Nevada. So I think the geographic constraints of this are also something that like, I don't know, there's just a lot of questions I have and the broker did not even like hint at answering this. There's a lot of questions I have. That would have been nice to have been discussed in the listing if they took three minutes
Starting point is 00:28:03 preparing it as opposed to cut and paste from chat. I just think, you know, I get it. Like as a broker, you've got, you know, a lot of tire kickers and like a lot of like buyers to sift through. But like, there's better ways to do it. Like put some information out there, help yourself. This, this is like a self-fulfilling cycle for them. They get more and more frustrated at the buyers that they get and like the questions they ask. But you're kind of self-selecting for that, I think, with this. Yeah. I don't know. The more we do this podcast, where I'm like, never, I would never do that job. Just seems so hard. I don't know how this. And I know
Starting point is 00:28:42 people that love it, but it just seems so brutal. Whatever. All right. So, well, based on what we know, which is pretty limited, do you call and get the SIM on this one? I would be just very curious to talk to the broker and figure out, like, are they just totally blowing off all the buyers? You know, like, are they just annoyed that you've even reached out? And then I would be really curious to know, like, okay, maybe it takes you 30 minutes worth of time to fill out an NDA, have a call with this person, actually like vet, I'm a serious buyer and get the information. I think this is worth spending 30 minutes on to actually see what's going on in this business. But I think it's going to only prove what we're speculating, which is this is inherently really difficult business
Starting point is 00:29:30 to transact and it's a very difficult business to run in transition. But look, you know, I know lots of people that have walked into business situations like this where first principles-wise, you think it should be a crappy business. And then they see that there's some reason that it hasn't been bought yet, and they realize they can fix that or address that or work around it, or that everybody's just wrong. And I have friends that have done that kind of stuff. So, you know, that's where I think, yeah, it's worth giving it a call because the story here kind of makes sense. Like, the listing's not good. It's not, you know, not SEO optimized at all. The brokers don't appear to be really trying.
Starting point is 00:30:06 So maybe there is something that we're all missing. The listing is incomplete. Like maybe there's something here and everybody else is looking at like we are and being like, this is terrible. And then walking away. But maybe there's a gem here. Just got to go, you know, they're going to do it for a half hour. We do not talk about this enough. But the other dilemma with this business is that it might be impossible to sell, especially as you get it bigger.
Starting point is 00:30:31 Like imagine if you hold this business for 10 years and it goes from 3 million in revenue to 10 million. in revenue or something in multiple locations. Like this is an inherently problematic business to sell, especially as it gets larger. Yeah. But you're just the guy to buy it. Thank you, beard and all. Because you have a beard. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Okay. All right. Thumbs up or thumbs down. I'm, I mean, I'm curious enough to, I'm not going to actually do it. I'm not that curious, but like if I had more free time, I would reach out to this broker. So I'm like right in the middle. Like if I was having, you know, a bored day, I would reach out to her and see what I could get. I think if you really like hunting and you have $3 million and this seems like a dream job to you.
Starting point is 00:31:19 They're only asking $1.6. They're only asking $1.6. Sorry. 3.3 million in revenue. It's still insane. But anyway, maybe it's priced at two times profits or even one time. Who knows? Yeah, go check it out.
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