Looking at getting out of consulting and buying a business using an sba loan. The business in interested in has been around for over 20 years.

Asking price is 800k
Gross revenue is 1.3M
Net profit is 260k

How difficult would it be to secure an SBA loan for the entire amount?

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Super interested in this. If you don’t mind sharing, how did you go about finding the business? Is the business in a field that you know a lot about? Also is that net profit figure before or after you pay yourself a salary?

Thanks!

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I used bizbuysell

Most businesses require you to sign an NDA before they provide you with any info. The business I found shared a pretty robust business history as well as financials dating back 10 years. They're also identified areas of growth can easily be implemented (better website, mobile app, etc) but haven't been due to the owner being an older individual who is retiring.

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If that’s the valuation, not that hard in my experience.

Collateral may be fine, but I’m not an expert.

The cash to use as down payment is too low. I doubt that will get approved. Maybe if you get owner financing?

Curious - did anything come of this?

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