The day someone offers to buy your business, they'll know your numbers better than you do.

One day, someone will offer to buy your business. And they'll know your numbers better than you do.

Private equity is moving into the trades fast. At some point a stranger shows up with a spreadsheet and a number.

Here's the uncomfortable part: he often understands what you built better than you do. Because he lives in the numbers, and you live on the trucks.

When that day comes:

The owner who can PROVE what the business is worth names the price.

The owner who can't takes the number on the page, and usually sells a life's work for a fraction of its value.

Not because it wasn't worth more. Because they couldn't prove it was.

The fix isn't complicated, but you have to start now: clean data, real systems, a defensible picture of revenue, margin, retention, and growth that doesn't live in your head.

And you don't have to be selling tomorrow for this to matter.

The numbers that win you a fair price the day the offer comes are the same numbers that help you run a better business every day until then.

Nobody lowballs a contractor who knows his numbers.

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Private equity is buying up the trades. One day someone shows up with a spreadsheet and an offer, and they'll often know your numbers better than you do.

The owner who can prove what the business is worth names the price. The one who can't takes the lowball.

Clean numbers protect you, the day you sell and every day before it.

#contractorlife #businessowner #trades #valuation #smallbusiness