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Guides for business owners and buyers
Straight, practical answers from people who have owned and run businesses themselves. No sales pitch: read, run your numbers, and call us when it is useful.
- SellingHow to sell a businessThe full path, step by step: valuation, the paperwork buyers ask for, supply agreements and leases, environmental checks, confidential marketing, offers, due diligence and closing.
- ValuingWhat is my business worth?How buyers and lenders value a business: owner's cash flow, the multiple, the property, and the things that move the number up or down.
- BuyingHow to buy a businessSetting your criteria, SBA and other financing, reading the numbers, environmental and supply-agreement checks, making an offer and closing.
- Quick answersQuestions we get askedShort answers on confidentiality, timing, taxes, SBA loans, goodwill and how a sale works, start to finish.
Thinking of selling? The questions owners ask
- Gas station sale checklistEvery document buyers and lenders ask for, and each step from value range to closing day.
- How much do gas stations sell for?How buyers actually price a gas station or c-store: fuel gallons and cents per gallon, inside sales by category, other income, the property, and what pulls the number down.
- Selling with the real estate, or the business onlyOwn the land or lease it? Your options for selling a gas station or c-store: sell both, sell the business and lease the land, assign your lease, or a sale-leaseback.
- Selling a gas station with old tanks or environmental issuesOld underground tanks, a past leak or an open cleanup don’t have to kill a sale. What buyers and lenders check, the records to gather, and how deals get done anyway.
- Your fuel supply contract: what happens when you sellBranded or unbranded, your fuel supply agreement shapes your sale: term and gallons left, assignment, supplier right of first refusal, incentive paybacks and PMPA basics.
- How to sell your gas station confidentiallyKeep your sale quiet from employees, your supplier, customers and competitors: blind marketing, NDAs, proof of funds, quiet visits, and when to tell each person.
- Selling your gas station yourself, or with a brokerCan you sell a gas station by owner? What the job involves, when going it alone works, what a fuel-station broker does, how brokers are paid, and what to ask before you sign.
Buying, financing and due diligence
- SBA loans for gas stationsHow 7(a) and 504 loans work for a station purchase, down payments, the documents lenders ask for, and the environmental review.
- Gas station due diligence: tanks and environmentalPhase I and Phase II reports, tank records to review, past releases and cleanup funds, and how buyers protect themselves in the contract.
For brokers, attorneys, CPAs, lenders and suppliers
Buying a gas station in your state
- Buy a gas station in OhioOhio listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in FloridaFlorida listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in GeorgiaGeorgia listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in MichiganMichigan listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in TexasTexas listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in CaliforniaCalifornia listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in New YorkNew York listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in PennsylvaniaPennsylvania listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in IllinoisIllinois listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in North CarolinaNorth Carolina listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in IndianaIndiana listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in New JerseyNew Jersey listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in AlabamaAlabama listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in South CarolinaSouth Carolina listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in TennesseeTennessee listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in VirginiaVirginia listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
- Buy a gas station in KentuckyKentucky listings, typical asking prices, SBA financing, tank checks and permits.
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- Free value rangeA confidential estimate for your business in about two minutes.
- Businesses for saleEvery business and property we have for sale right now.
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