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Kiplinger
Business
Brian Hanks, MBA, CFP®

I Help Professionals Buy Their Own Businesses: This Is the $1.1 Million Mistake I See All the Time

Two businessmen look at a laptop together in an office.

A few months ago, I got a call from a dentist who had been working as an employee for three years.

She was making close to $200,000 a year, had no major complaints about her job and wanted my professional opinion on a crossroads: Should she buy a practice now, or wait a few years until she felt more confident running a small business?

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