Setting the value of a business

[jtuck004]

1. I would bet he knows how difficult the bank financing is going to be, and that he will

finance because he thinks he will net more that way.

Does it have an international exposure that there is profit from? Could there be?

The way one used to value business (multiples of the profit) assumed there was a future in which things would grow. That is no longer the case in the U.S., and may not be for many years, at least until we quit increasing our personal and national debt and fooling ourselves that this is progress.

In our future, what if GDP sits around .05, or even declines to, say, -.5 periodically, over the next decade? In case things continue to deteriorate or even get much worse here, is the business really sustainable?

What if it only does half as well as you think? I would bet he thinks it is worth 3x what you want to offer, but that's normal