myself. It turned out the man was the father of a friend of our son, Stephen. He was from Cherry Hill. We started talking and told him what we were doing – looking for a business. He said a good friend of his, right down the street, was a business broker and could prob- ably help us.
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When something like this happens you really begin to wonder whether it is just coin- cidence or whether someone is actually look- ing out for you. Anyway we went to the broker who asked what kind of business we were looking for. We hadn’t had much luck find- ing an answering service business that fit our needs or budget, so Herman kind of sarcasti- cally said, “An Answering Service.” He didn’t expect much. The broker called every Answer- ing Service in the Yellow Pages (If future read- ers of this book don’t know what the Yellow Pages were, it was a telephone directory for businesses). Before we knew it we were interviewing potential sellers and learning something about the answering service business while we were at it. One of the businesses we looked at was very desirable but was just too much for our limited capital. All we had to work with was the money from the sale of our house in Cher- ry Hill, which after the mortgage was paid off wasn’t that much. Another answering service was owned by two brothers who wanted to get out of their current business because it didn’t produce enough income for two families.
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