You spot it. We do the rest.

You hear it at the kitchen table first

Owners mention the business when they talk about the house. These are the lines worth a phone call.

• We’ll move once the business sells.

  A sale is already planned, and they almost never know what the business is worth yet. That is the first thing Ron answers.

• We own the building the shop is in.

  Two assets with two different buyers. The building is valued separately from the business, and it can be sold separately too.

• The kids don’t want to take it over.

  A business with no successor usually ends in a sale. The earlier the owner knows the number, the more of it they can still change.

• Dad’s estate includes the company.

  The family has to decide whether to sell it or keep it, and neither decision makes sense without knowing what it is worth.