Acquisitions

I have read a lot of books about buying, selling and valuing businesses; this one is the best. It's straightforward, identifies potential pitfalls and their solutions, and provides many useful forms. I'd recommend this book to anyone considering buying a business for the first time; I learned a lot that I did not know (for example, that most businesses are sold with owner financing).

I am reading it at present.....you can only read a few pages at a time...then you must stop to think and let the ideas formulate. There is so much content, so much useful information and frankly, in an area where frustration and fear of failure become frequent visitors, this book gives you the sense that it can be done, it is possible, and here's how the others did it..........I like this book because it tells you about Main Street not Wall Street, and how to use OPM to buy your business to operate...when so much is about fast-buck merchants flipping and spinning.

I think this book is really helpful and one of the very best I have read.......pity Amazon has deleted it from its catalogue

After reading this book I followed the jam packed information and accomplished Selling my business quickly and most of all for quite a bit more money than I initially thought I would. A very good roadmap for Buying a business as well. Now that I have sold my business I am now following Mr.Lauer's outline on buying a business and I feel that I will be equally sucessful on buying another business.

Once again, Thank you, Mr.Lauer for an exceptional roadmap.