{"id":561049,"date":"2013-07-30T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T19:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrbbd.wpengine.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/questions-to-consider-for-the-serious-buyer\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:43:57","slug":"questions-to-consider-for-the-serious-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/questions-to-consider-for-the-serious-buyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions to Consider for the Serious Buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious buyer should have the answers to the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are you considering the purchase of a business at this time?<\/li>\n<li>What is your time frame to find a suitable business?<\/li>\n<li>Are you open-minded about different opportunities, or are you looking for a specific business?<\/li>\n<li>Have you set aside an amount of capital that you are willing to invest?<\/li>\n<li>Do you really want to be in business for yourself?<\/li>\n<li>Are you currently employed or unemployed?<\/li>\n<li>Are you the decision maker, or are there others involved?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The real key to being a serious buyer, however, is whether the individual can make that \u201cleap of faith\u201d so necessary to the purchase of a business. No matter how much due diligence a buyer performs, no matter how many advisors there are to advise the buyer, at some point, the buyer has to make a leap of faith to purchase the business. There are no \u201csure things\u201d and there are no guarantees. If a buyer is not comfortable being in business, he or she should not even contemplate\u00a0buying one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serious buyer should have the answers to the following questions: Why are you considering the purchase of a business at this time? What is your time frame to find a suitable business? Are you open-minded about different opportunities, or are you looking for a specific business? Have you set aside an amount of capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buyer-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrbusinessbrokers.com\/vrbbgreenbay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}