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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FedExGround" data-source="post: 939793" data-attributes="member: 40248">Nick,Have an account look over the books and have a lawyer look over the FedEx contract and the buyer/seller agreement.  Net income is almost always overstated.  Ask the owner why he is selling.  Retirement, cash for another business investment, or a medical situation are acceptable reasons to sell, but even if th business is not easy ask yourself who walks away from 100k + a year for even 25 hours of very hard work a week?  I'm looking at a situation now where the owner is claiming 3k a week net and has a manager running the show and he still wants to sell.  Also keep in mind that for the number of FedEx ground routes in the US a small number come up for sale.</blockquote>