Each museum's hat has its own distinctive hatband. When you start a business from scratch you have to jump through hoops to find and train employees, build up a customer base and find suppliers. But when you buy an existing business much of this infrastructure will already be in place. Don Pelham bought an existing business, MasterCare Cleaning Services in Seattle, from another businessman. But when you purchase a business, the phone rings from day one.
Ads are in place and working.
Schedules are already made. When I took over the cleaning service, there were about 12 jobs already scheduled, three or four a week, and the phone was ringing a new job every two or three days. Investigate the business yourself. Find out how much traffic it actually gets. Check newspapers and town records for information about any proposed highways, superstores or zoning changes.