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Lender underwriting, closing, dead, reason required, field group columns, identity deal name, blind, platform or broker plus broker name, listing URL, date found, location, category, per the ranking in Section 08, economics, asking price, revenue, TTM, seller SDE, recast SDE after the manager, multiple on recast, recurring percent, top customer percent, structure SBA eligible, yes, no, unknown, seller note asked and agreed, percent, lease expiry plus options, license transfer path, people owner hours, per week, GM in place, name, tenure, pay, key person risk, high, medium, low, process stage, NDA signed date, CIM received, last contact, next action plus date, diligence stage, 04, lender and prequel status, decision, kill reason or pass notes, LOI price and expiry, hold back percent, expected close date, 90 day value plan, one line, rule 1, no recast, no call a deal cannot enter broker call without the recast SDE filled in.
The manager's salary deduction happens before any broker's time gets spent. Rule 2, dead needs a coded reason, price, financials, concentration, owner dependence, lease license, financing or seller behavior, after 30 deals the histogram of those codes is the market.
Research, rule 3, time box everything, stage 0 happens the same week a lead lands, no deal sits more than 14 days without a next action and a date, 12 what could not be verified, open questions stated plainly, nothing in this section blocks the search, but each item should be closed before money moves. Live verification, the research pass red platform pages and market sources through a web index and page fetch on October 17th, 2026.
A live browser check could not be run, reconfirm all fees at sign up and check out, acquire seller fee conflict, the current help center says 6 to 8% plus $25 to $100 a month. Its own older blog says 4% flat. This page uses the help center schedule, biz buy sell edge price and report cadence conflict. Its own page says as low as $14.99 a month with one valuation report per month. Third party say $24.95 a month with quarterly reports. Empire flippers unlock model conflict.
Older sources describe a 5% refundable deposit.
ID plus proof of funds unlock limits with no buyer fee. Current per listing behavior is unverified. Its listing criteria and roughly 91% rejection rate come from a third party summary, not a fetched empire flippers criteria page. Empire flippers volume and sold figures quoted by third parties were not verified on its own pages. Website closers commission, the percentage is not published by the firm and review site percentages were not relied on. Its 1 million to 1 billion plus range comes from third party profiles.
Axial success fee liability on a sub $2 million deal depends on the membership agreement. The published Lehman scale comes from Axial.net. Check the contracted rate before joining. SBA rate spreads and timelines vary by lender and were revised across SOP versions. Only the 10% equity rule, the full standby rule, the 1.25x historical DSCR for first time acquisitions under SOP 8.1 and the $5 million cap should be treated as stable. And even those need a named lenders confirmation for a specific deal.
Local broker commission rates were not verified per firm and are not quoted as fact anywhere on this page. No category level recession proof claim is made. The APPA 2025 data on pet services is explicitly mixed as noted in the category ranking.