Our problem is that we stopped producing.

Producing and licensing.

Hey Sean - Nick is right but pay very close attention to a few words that are key to me in what he said:"finally feel comfortable"Finding someone your comfortable with and quite frankly is actually good at what they do VS just charging fee's and not producing many results is no easy task....but it can be done.

So I would avoid making buy and hold my base activity unless your going to do business elsewhere where it makes sense..And from an investors viewpoint on any money i put down I want a return on it too, it isn't free, it would produce income elsewhere if it wasn't sitting as equity so you need to figure the lost income on a down payment as a cost factor too.

I'd like to see that applied to many areas (banks comes to mind first but others also) but I'm afraid the numbers would be twisted to show whatever the producer(s) of that report want them to show.

I think I'd start with "that is not my stove, would you please produce it."

The mass of people have moved from producers to consumers.

I suppose asking them to produce it might call their bluff if they don't have one.

And as mentioned, if you buy the LLC no telling where the bodies are buried... so to speak.

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