Guys, businesses get leased out all the time. Some franchised fast food locations are leased out to an operator. Someone finances the upstart, builds it to a certain level and then leases it to an operator for a fixed monthly amount or a percentage. Just because you might not be familiar with the practice or it may be rare within this particular industry,doesn't necessarily make it a bad idea. Brain may do very well leasing out the business.
For example lets say a guy has lead generation programs in place that that produces $5,000 in sales every month like clock work. That's sixty thousand a year, gross. In a operation like Brains (VLM based operating out of a paid for SUV with almost NO fixed costs) gross margins will be extremely high. Very possible to NET 85-90% of every dollar you take in, assuming you are marketing and not wasting money on print advertising, yellow pages etc.
Do you know how many people would be more than willing to pay a fee to have a turn key business that is already taking in $5,000 a month ?
If gas really does hit $6-7 a gallon this summer like many analysts are predicting, tons of carpet cleaners are going to be wishing they had a secondary income source. Work will come to a screeching halt except for required move out cleaning. Everything else will wait.
That's really all Brain is attempting to do, build a few additional income streams. That is something that should be respected not mocked. Something tells me Brain will do alright regardless of what the economy does because he has an open mind to other opportunities.
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