About this episode
When he realized he was willing to do the work himself, Matthew Railla bought a $500k SDE termite inspection business.
Topics in Matt’s interview:
- His family’s culture of entrepreneurship
- His background running a winery
- Becoming a business broker
- Buying his own listing
- Buying a tough-to-sell business
- Getting an SBA loan using the new partial buyout rules
- Crawling under houses himself to learn the trade
- Seller agreeing to teach him for 2 years
- The 3 branches of pest control
- His plan to expand the business
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