Is your STR business ready for you to exit?

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Louise Brace

Head of Marketing SCALE

Lisa Roads - Exit Strategy for Short-term rental operators

“Is Your Short-Term Rental Business Ready for Your Exit? Key Steps to Prepare for a Successful Sale”

You have invested years of blood, sweat, and tears into building your STR business, but at what point do you decide it’s time to exit?

For every entrepreneur, this is a decision that you will have to make at some point!

Making that decision could be one you decided with a very clear vision from the very start of your business journey, with a razor focussed growth and exit plan, but for others, it can be a complex decision involving multiple business partners where some want to sell, and others want to stay and expand further, and in some cases, the discussion of selling is raised only when they are approached by a potential buyer.

There really isn’t a one-size-fits-every business owner(s) for the right or wrong time, but as someone who has been through the scaling and selling process twice, knowing how much of a roller coaster the selling process can be, I can’t emphasise enough why preparing your business for a successful sale from the start is essential.

A well-planned exit can be the difference between a stronger negotiating position and achieving a more profitable seamless sale transition or missing out on the business value you’ve worked so hard to build and a transition which is messy and difficult.

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