Posted by Rick(CA) on March 16, 2001 at 17:56:21:
That is good advice. That’s how entrepreneurs start successful businesses. Life is full of examples like this from Henry Ford to Thomas Edison to a host of others.
We as investors have a unique opportunity to find the problem (talk to the owner long enough and it will be revealed) to solving it (wrap around? lease option? trust? etc., or just plain walking away).