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Building a $25m FedEx Route Empire from $100k Equity

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If anything, we've talked about the pros of this business. Certainly how cashflow works and the regularity of it. You also early on said you can have as much revenue basically as you want, as you're willing to work for.

Any other pros and cons, pro or con that you wanna say about this opportunity for outsiders looking in?

Yeah, I would say if I could go back in time and do it all over again, I would. It'd be great to know what I know now. So it's like, you know, if people are listening, I hope this is helpful.

And, you know, if people want to reach out, I'm willing to help them. But I think the cons are we I I have a very demanding customer. The nature of the work is very intense.

These packages have to go out. They have to get delivered. You know, FedEx is very protective of their brand.

You have to do a good job. You can't bend the rules. And doing all of that well is not easy.

It's not rocket science. You know, we're not curing cancer. It's nothing novel, but sometimes it feels like it's as hard as rocket science.

Not that I know what that is, but it's very difficult at times. So it's not a walk in the park. This is not, I'm going to get SBA loan, put a hundred thousand, hopefully make that back in a year.

Everything else is gravy. Yeah. it'll probably fall apart. If you're not involved, I think it's going to be a rude awakening for you.

So I wouldn't want someone to come in and be like, just throw it in the portfolio. But I think you can get, you know, outsized, you know, rewards and returns doing this the right way where you don't want to put it in the portfolio. You want to run it and do a good job.

Yeah. Because no one's going to pay you what you have the potential to make.

Although, Avery, I do know of somebody who has a W-2 and a FedEx route. Now, he's not doing your volumes anywhere close, but it's a legitimately sized... route or business, probably 3 million in, in top line for his business.

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