Re: Question about buying alarm accounts

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephane Laviolette wrote:
> Hi
>
> I hope this is the right place to ask this question...
>
> Well i'm looking to get into alarm sales & monitoring and may have an
> opportunity to purchase existing alarm account.
> If contracts have 12 + months remaining and charge 16$ monthly what do you
> thin is a resonnable price to buy 100 or so of these accounts ?
> This would be great and give us a jump start and a steady monthly income.
> any advice would be appreciated
>
> Stephane
>
>


Going rate is 2.5 times annual revenue.  15% hold-back.  Make sure
you're no buying a "pig-in-a-poke".  One company here (Vancouver) sold
their accounts and the outfit that bought them very quickly found out
that most of the accounts were "barter" (no cash involved).