If you have any advice re: trying to sell our business (please no salesmen!!) I would love love love to hear it! Or if you have any other advice, comments, info I would be so greatful to receive it!
So here goes,
I am so desperate to leave our town and business behind yet
am afraid that we’re making a move to do the exact same thing in a different environment.
The plan is,
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Sell the business
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Sell the house
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Buy a campervan to travel the country in
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Travel the country looking for a town we would
like to live and bring our babies up in
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Stay in preferred places for decent period of
time to properly gauge the community
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Purchase property in perfect place
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Start small online salami business (likely to
need more income than this to support us)
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Enjoy the good life
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The good life =
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Less stressful environment
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Time to enjoy our babies
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Leisure time to pursue interests
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Ability to rear some animals and grow crops to
largely feed our family
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Beautiful surrounds
It sounds amazing.
After writing this it is very clearly obvious to me that
Auckland just cannot give us these things. The main trouble is the cost of
living here is too high.
The only way to get the extra time that will provide the
first 4 points is to significantly reduce outgoings. The biggest expense is the
mortgage. Being locked into debt for so many years, we simply aren’t
comfortable with this notion anymore.
Servicing a very small mortgage for a short period of time
plus being as self sufficient in food as possible we should be able to live
very cheaply. Though the self sufficiency thing will take up quite a bit of
free time, it’s seasonal. We can also do it as much or as little as we like so
it can bend with us. The best thing, most of the stuff – moving cattle from one
pen to another, feeding chickens, watering plants, harvesting orchards can be
done by the whole family. So in a way, the fourth point ties directly into the
second point.
Beautiful surrounds is a personal point which I doubt Adam
would care much for. While creating a beautiful home and garden takes time and
a bit of money here and there, I mean more in terms of the local area. I am so
inspired and awestruck by beauty that I feel I must be near to it. I think this
is why I am so drawn towards the ocean. While the country side is often pleasant,
the ocean is like a jewel. It has so many colours. It changes often. Of course
sometimes it’s a snarling beast but even that holds some appeal!
Luckily, New Zealand (and really everywhere on our planet)
has beauty readily available. I guess I’m after a particular beauty that I need
to see before I know exactly what it is.
So I know what I want to do, I know how I’m going to do it,
why don’t I just do it?
Well, the business is on the market. The house we’re fairly
confident will be snapped up. But the issue is the selling of our business.
Waiting for someone to buy it, let alone show any interest
in it has so far been a horrendous and drawn out process. Feeling as though
there’s no one that thinks your business is worth having a go at is disappointing.
It might not be making a killing but it works. We make ends meet. We get paid.
So, what the hell do we do about this problem? The problem
being that we are desperate to sell our business...
Try to work on and improve the business’ profit seems the best
and only option at the moment. Adam is working hard to keep up with the amount
of work coming through while I try to access a whole new customer pool – online
shoppers...a huge learning curve for me and taking up the majority of my waking,
baby-free hours.
I feel as though an online shop would provide the boosted
income we require to push us over the break-even level and into profits.
I actually feel really guilty taking time out to write this
but I’ve had so many jumbled thoughts in my head, I was desperate to get them
down on a piece of (digital) paper. Questioning myself about why we want to
sell up and move on. Contemplating the possibility of getting what we want
where we want. Thank fully it only took a quarter of a page to remember exactly
the reasons for our decision. We must be doing the right thing.
SheeForce
