How to Grow Revenue 50% in Year 1

You'Ve take, you've gotten back out. Yeah. So north of like 120%, call it levered cash on cash for the deal. And coming from real estate, when people get excited about 10 caps or whatever, 10% kind of yields, I mean it's just, it's just night and day, the world.

Not that the risk is the same, but yeah, it's, you know, it's, it's been really great. Let me know if I missed anything there. If you had Any other follow ups though? That was, that was great.

Yeah. We're like 1. 135 or something. 130. 140 I think is what I, what I saw the other day.

130. 140% percent. Yeah. Incredible. And that. But does that include pay your time? Did you compensate for yourself? You compensate yourself for the, the time that you put in or.

No, my, my salary is netted out of that number. So that is, that number is like what true distributions were to myself and my brother. True pure distributions even after paying yourself for your time.

That's, that's phenomenal. Yeah. Very, very, very fortunate. Very blessed and yeah, I'm super grateful.

So and, and so how many you, you said you gave us a picture of how often you're swinging by the shop but put that into number of. Hours per week excluding driving. Probably like 5 to 10.

5 to 10 hours. Good for you. I mean given. Why are you distracted by maybe buying a business outside of framing and not pushing this as as far as you can go? It just seems like there's a lot of, of meat on the bone here and it's an overlooked industry and a joyful industry. I don't think it's completely off the table. I have approached other frame shop owners to.

Yeah. To buy their businesses and not met with a ton. I mean I haven't really done a full search but I've had to talk to a handful. Haven't been met with the most reception.

Not that they were dismissive or maybe dismissive is the right word. Not rude or anything but just like no, not interested, that kind of thing. And so. And the owner profile of these businesses is typical.

Kind of boomer, male. Yep.