How to Own 20% of Multiple SMBs

Yeah. Cause like I, I hired a couple new managers. Couple didn't work out. I had to like, learn the process of hiring for this business and how it worked and like who I was looking for.

And there's a, sometimes a lack of talent. Like it's. It takes time to get people to apply in a small area. Eventually, as of like September, October, we brought in a new manager who's really good and that was our second manager now because the, the one is the GM now and the other one's like the lead supervisor.

And we got a, an office manager in October, which was a huge hire because it took me out of all the hiring duties, which I was still doing until four or five months ago. Like every night on. Indeed messaging people, getting on calls, trying to staff people.

But. So it took a good year to really get to the point where we're at now. But now we're. I think we're out of the J curve. We're getting bids, we're trying to get new work.

We. Our biggest account, we rebid them. They actually wanted to increase the scope and that covered a lot of the accounts we had lost and kind of evened us out, which is really important. Like they more than 2x their revenue towards us, which is like a kind of a lifesaver.

Yeah, they could have fired us with all the issues going on. But I, I went there and sat down with them and like apologized and they knew there were problems and they were happy I was fixing them. They. They stuck with me. Which was like if, if they had left SBA loan payments would have been an actual fear of mine.

But yeah, the fact that they stayed and increased and then I could right size the. The budgeting on it. We're actually making money. Made a, A massive difference.

Yeah. Yeah. I recall you saying in the pre call that you're not being there in person was felt during some of these low points.

Talk about that. Yeah, I did Performance reviews a couple weeks ago for 2025 with all my key people and my one manager who the one. Not the one that's the GM now, the other one. She told me that the only feedback she had for me, she said like I was.

I've been doing great as an owner. She can tell I'm working hard. She likes me way better than the last owner.

So I felt good about all that. And she said she appreciated that I actually had the, the courage to make those tough decisions and fix the problems because I told her I would. And then she's like, sure you will.