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While places like Cape Cod and the Hamptons get totally jampacked in the summer months there are always enclaves where you can still capture the peace and beauty that drew people to these locations in the first place. Today’s home is located in the town of Chatham on Cape Cod in a very private and prestigious neighborhood. The house, which was built in 2003 and designed by Francis Sullivan, is perched high above the shoreline for optimum views of the Atlantic and Monomoy Islands. The six-bedroom home has an impressive great room with stone and wood architectural touches, gourmet kitchen,large first-floor master suite, billiards room, and a lower level level filled with each amenity imaginable. The property is landscaped with lawns and lovely gardens and is listed at $12.95 million which makes it the priciest home on the market in town.

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I’ve heard about this scam, and I just received one today.  Here is the text of the email:

AM MR SCOTT SMITH
I WILL LIKE TO MAKE AND ORDER FOR SOME ITEM IN YOUR STORE SO I WANT TO KNOW THE TOTAL COST OF THE ORDER PLUS SHIPPING COST TO NIGERIA.VIA FEDEX EXPRESS 3 TO 5 DAYS DELIVERY OR DHL 3 TO 5 DAYS DELIVERY.

Planning for Practice Success-—30 COPIES

THE SHIPPING ADDRESS
54 GBAMGBOSE STREET
CITY; LAGOS ISLAND
STATE; LAGOS STATE
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
ZIP CODE;23401
PHONE….23414192536

BEST REGARD
SCOTT

I have a “shopping cart” so if he really wanted the books, he could have gone on there and used a credit card and paid for them.  I hear what happens is they ask for your bank account so they can put the money in.  Right!  I’m going to give him my bank account information.  Maybe next century.

Have you had anyone  send you an email like this?

Tags: internet scams, online sales

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I have seen this over and over as I help young professionals purchase practices:  The owner of the practice (often a baby boomer) invariably overvalues the practice.

Here is the scenario:  You’ve worked hard to build up your business over 20- to 30-years, in order to leave it to your children (who it turns out don’t want it) or to sell it to finance your retirement.  So you value it at what you think it’s worth, including all of your “sweat equity” (I hate that term).

The value for your business is this:  A willing buyer and a willing seller, who concur to a price that’s mutually uncomfortable for both.  I love this definition!  My husband created the “mutually uncomfortable” thing, and I concur.  It means neither party thinks he/she got “taken,” and neither party thinks he “stole” the thing.  Both celebrations feel a little uncomfortable (I think I sold my business for just a tiny too tiny, but it’s ok; he thinks he purchased it for a tiny too much, but it’s ok.)

In other words, the value of a business is what the celebrations think it is.  Sure there are some “rules of thumb” for such things. For more information, see my About.com article on Valuing Your Business for Sale.

I’d love to hear about your experience buying or selling a business.

Tags: baby boomers, business valuations, businesses for sale, small businesses

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