Others are quick to judge here so Ill refrain since I dont know anything about you. Another broker has covered the SBA part. Traditional financing is another although it will be hard to find a bank willing to do any commercial lending like this without going SBA route. An alternate method is finding a private or group of private investors. Surprisingly there are actually a lot of investors on Twitter actively looking for deals. They have formed their own little community and I know people who were successful securing funding this route. Look for tweets talking about ReTwit, LP, GP and you will find the community of people. Maybe you can find money there…its unconventional, but we live in an unconventional world, and buying a business really has no rules so anything goes.

Thank you! This is an active deal origination service. We are making direct contact with business owners in our buyers target criteria to source deals otherwise unavailable on the market. In my experience, a lot of business owners are interested in selling but they are not interested in going on market for various reasons. The $1k/month covers the time and cost of this active marketing and outreach. Its really a service for buyers who know what they want, know they want to get a deal done in a certain period of time, and know they likely won’t find it through traditional methods.

I volunteered at SCORE for a while. It’s a hit or miss. You get what you pay for. Most of the SCORE mentors are oldschool and not caught up with the times. Be careful what advice you take, I sat with a mentor one time and watched as he gave advice that I knew was not correct. Can be a useful tool if you ask the right questions and match with the right person.

You won’t find anything in this price range, with or without financing, that will be profitable enough to hire employees to run it for you.