These answers are general information and are not tax or legal advice. Your attorney and CPA should confirm anything that affects your own sale.
- How Buyers Read Your Books and Find Owner Earnings
How a buyer recasts your financial statements into owner earnings, which add backs count, and why owner draws and one time income do not.
- Broker Fees on a Business Sale: What You Pay at Closing
What a business broker usually charges, when the fee is paid, what else comes out of your proceeds and which questions to ask before you sign.
- Landlord Consent and Leasehold Land When You Sell a Business
How a lease, landlord approval and Hawaii leasehold land affect a business sale: assignment clauses, personal guarantees, rent resets and timing.
- Seller Financing and SBA Loans: What Buyers Can Afford
How buyers pay for a small business: cash, an SBA loan or a seller note. What each means for your price, your timeline and your risk as the seller.
- Keeping a Sale Private When Everyone on Oahu Knows Everyone
How a blind listing, NDAs and a plan for telling staff keep an Oahu business sale quiet until closing, and why early news puts the deal at risk.