As I’m cleaning my route off right now that I paid off in 5 years. I have to respectfully disagree.
Window cleansing routes army the only type of routes in the world. You have bread routes , Coke routes , boars head routes. They are all done that way
I’m not rate I know countless others that have
Ya have balls to make money in this world. Not saying don’t be smart an give your money less risk. Is being smart
An btw that’s he only a business is sold
I think the route has value. This is because in the end my time is valuable and I know it would take a lot of it to gain 40 or even 20 accounts hitting the pavement myself. Since I don’t feel Im going to lose 100% or even 25% of the accounts there is expected return. Also contracts don’t make that much difference to me. If they did have say a year contract it wouldn’t be valuable anyhow. Its not long enough to recoup my money. People dont have 3 or 4 year contracts for storefronts. I think the fact that most of them have been with him 3+ years is a positive sign.
At this point I feel like the ball is in my court as jfromthed said hes in a rush. he hasn’t sold it for nearly a year of trying and hes lowered the price significantly. I think I will tell him to keep it on the market as I can tell he will probably take offense to an offer of 3k, but if he can’t sell it I’ll tell him can always come back to me to unload it for 3k.
What does it make a Month ?
With “routes” you are comparing “brands” to a general service. It’s apples and oranges friend. A Coke route is a guy stocking Coke at stores that already sell it. Coke itself is constantly pushing and marketing their brand.
With window cleaning, you are selling a “generic” service. No one is obligated to stick with you.
When you buy a used car, are you buying on the contingency that nothing breaks, and if it does, you can come back and deduct that from the sale price?
It’s great buying a route worked out for you. If this was really the norm, then banks would loan you money to buy the routes. But they don’t because a non contracted route is not security for a loan. It’s a huge risk.
Each of us has an opinion, so I’ll leave it at that. We aren’t going to agree, and I’m ok with that.
Im not sure where these jobs are yet as he hasn’t taken me along on the route yet but its not really my style to go after them like that once he’s told me their pricing.
Didn’t read your whole pist , but there are no more coke routes. There use to be back in the days. Coke took them all back
That would be stealing glad to hear hats not your style
There income per month is about 1550 but varies a little since some jobs are bi annual
If I had to guess I would if said between 1500-2000
Offer him 4 times that equals 6000 . Offer him a 1000 down. Offer to pay him between 3-5 hundred s month till its paid off.
Get a 3 month gaurntee meaning you lose any job with in 3 months 3 times any job you lose comes off off the principle.
No compete Claus in the contract.
I would do it . The way you describe it it sounds good to me
If you feel 6000 is to much then go for 4500 that’s 3 times. Any blower than that is insulting the guy imho
Everything is a risk in this world man. Buying. A house is a risk. Who to say something cent happen an you can’t make the mortgage payments.
God forbid , but how do you think all these forclosers are hopping
The list there jobs. There are no jobs cause Obama is Presidemt. He don’t create them.he creates debt That is why we need Trump
Ha what did I start. Here comes all the Trump haters
This will be my last comment on this matter. I know thank god!!
Everyone of you buy your work in one form or another. Do your residential customers have contracts.
No …suckers !!!
dang @Majestic66 and @freemind stop arguing who right and who’s wrong…
you both have valid points do you feel better now… 
@AndyJones just wanted to know if “40 stor front accounts for 7k is worth it”[quote=“mercuryavenue, post:42, topic:37285”]
I think I will tell him to keep it on the market as I can tell he will probably take offense to an offer of 3k, but if he can’t sell it I’ll tell him can always come back to me to unload it for 3k.
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^^I think mercuryavenue has come to a decision on the matter!
And there is nothing wrong with that
Yeah that’s not exactly what I was suggesting. Obviously taking somebody’s privileged information and undercutting or trying to swipe their business is a rotten thing to do.
But there is currently nothing legal or moral standing in the way of advertising your services to businesses in that area without forking over a ton of cash.
My opinion is that a route or customer database is only worth money if there is a contractual agreement with the account holder. Otherwise it’s just a old timer looking to cash in before he checks out. Cause he knows once he quits anybody can scoop up those jobs.
Take a page out of sports contracts and offer an incentive-laden deal - the more clients you get from his route, the more you pay.
I’d be worried he’s offered the route to a bunch of companies and that there’s a bunch of vultures about to swoop in on all the accounts.
Here is the easy answer. Offer to pay him a percentage of each job until it’s paid for with the caveat that if the customer cancels, you don’t owe him any more payments.
Lol. Ya that’s basically how I said it.
Then we are both right.
