40% Growth in Year 1 of a Paving Business

Ended up meeting with a guy who said, hey, you know, I have a. I pave, but I also do utility work. The whole. The whole nine yards.

He does. He has a big contracting company in the area. So he said, I have a license called heavy highway, and it encompasses paving and a handful of other trades. But with my heavy highway license, I'm already qualified to pave.

Build bridges. It was highways, you know, a whole slew of things. And then, you know, right towards the bottom, there was like one or two sentences and it said something like, and specialize in the demolition of. And like, my eyes just keyed right in on that word demolition.

And then it proceeded to list, you know, concrete reinforced structures, steel, you Name it. In my mind, I was like, all right, well, I've certainly done a lot

of that, you know, a lot of destroying such structures.

Exactly. Exactly. Right. So. And they didn't say it had to be, you know, mechanical versus whatever, but, you know, I said, all right, well, this. This could be an answer. So I got with a guy who's the head of our, you know, breaching department, and we wrote up a document that was completely factual, you know, listing all the, you know, experience I had in that field and sent it off to the, you…

And you have to get permission to take the test. Right. You can't just go and take it and pass it and get the license. They want to verify your experience.

So it took them about a month, but they, you know, contacted me, I think, by email and said, all right, you know, you're good to go.

You can.

You can go take the test. So that was, you know, without that, I don't think the bank would have wanted to. To finance a deal, you know, because, you know, you'll hear people say, oh, well, you could put it in someone else's name.

True. You could keep the former owner on as a part owner.