Deciding to Exit After 2 Years of Ownership

But you know, again, somebody who had just turned 40 at the time, like there were places like simply would not have been on my list or it could have been a fantastic deal or fantastic opportunity. But if it was in a town that I didn't want to move to, like, it just wouldn't have been on my list. So we were, you know, sure.

We had some discretion, of course, as well. So. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you called your kids adventurous.

Did you like about it? Why don't you lay the.

The ground work or whatever the appropriate term is for. So you, you. We met in May of 2022. Yep. And then timeline always helps people kind of when did you find the opportunity and then when did we close?

Yeah, I probably found it. I mean it was very quickly after that. It was in maybe Juneish, something like that.

Because again, I remember our relationship. It was super kind of new fresh at that time too. Right. So Sam and I are frankly building trust.

It spent three days together and now I'm calling them to ask about negotiating an loi. Right. So like a ton of trust that I think we built in each other quite honestly in a very, very short amount of time. So that was June or July time frame.

Again, met with the sellers in Breckenridge after having some phone calls. This was through a. It was through biz by sell is where I found the listing. I'll. I'll add. One of the things I really did not enjoy during my.

My search phase was generating deal flow. And it went so far as I got connected actually with a member of our boot camp that Sam may remember, a gentleman by the name of Joe. And he was working with some offshore partners at the time in Pakistan.

I was curious. You start to hear a lot of us hear offshore partners and all the things that. That can potentially afford one, both in search and operations. So I was intrigued. Joe connected me with this offshore partner.

They helped generate deal flow for me. They were, you know, good, bad or indifferent. They were signing NDAs on my behalf.