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[VIDEO] Seller financing used to help both buyer and seller in an equipment liquidation scenario

Seller financing is not just for buying small businesses. Here's a story about how it can be applied to an equipment liquidation to both the buyer and seller's benefit.

Let's see if the buyer and seller in this food business can make a good deal that both can benefit from.



The Invest Local Book blog is all about small business, franchises, local investing, home economics, small business systems and borrowing money for your business. It's full of great content and I look forward to seeing your feedback.

[VIDEO] Should businesses own real estate? or is it better to lease?

I tackle the question:

"Should my business own the real estate its located in?"

Many business owners and buyers are obsessed with owning the building where a business is located.  I tackle this question and show you different ways of looking at it.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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Negotiating Personal Guarantees on a capital lease [VIDEO]

I spent some time speaking with an investor who has read my book, Invest Local.  He was asking about whether or not to ask for personal guarantees on the lease he was thinking about investing in.

I discuss my advice and why my suggestion can help to determine the confidence of the borrower.

Thanks for watching.  Also, buy my book if you're interested in learning more about these topics.

The $75,000 Truck Loan that Wasn't

Time for a little story about a truck loan that didn't quite work out.  The moral of the story is that you need to have a process and an idea of what you're doing when you get involved in a private lending deal.

Enjoy.

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New Release- 15 of my business finance articles that appeared in eNBusiness magazine

FREE -- Last night I decided to put together 15 of the articles that I had written for eNBusiness magazine that are still relevant today.  The package can be downloaded for FREE.  My hope is that you pick up an interesting tidbit or two.



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Birth of a book?

So one of my goals for 2014 was to create some kind of new income stream for myself.  This is usually a goal each year and I usually achieve it in some way.

I was laying in bed on February 13th after having been to the Justin Timberlake concert in Toronto.  The idea came to me.. share what I know about private lending deals.

Today is March 11 and I sent my first book draft to a friend who has editing experience for a first reading.  25,000 words and we'll see what he thinks.

I wanted to use this blog both as a way to document the journey of putting out this book and promoting it as well as a forum for discussions on the topics within the book.  Let's see how things go.  I haven't done anything like this before.

Dave