I've been mentoring a friend of mine, he's young and
rather ambitious. He started out his 'wisp' using a
residential cable connection, I've helped him for
basically free for the last three years grow his base to
250 customers, he just last week acquired a failing wisp
with 65 subs on a no money down, pay us a commission
basis. I've been managing most of his core network and
providing him IPv4 and transit for a steal of a price, I
even loaned him a substantial amount of cash recently to
buy a bunch of surplus equipment. Well anyway I guess he
got caught with another women and his wife is demanding he
shut down or sell the wisp for whatever reason, he called
and put this all on my plate today.
Instead of offering to sell me the company (I don't
really want it) he tellse that he's going to try selling
to a local competitor whom I consider slightly a better
personal than a child molester.
So anyway I'll try to stop rambling, what's a wisp
Worth these days? Gross revenue for a year is what I
figure (max) with his all used ubnt equipment?
The other dilemma is that he's about 3 months behind
on his transit and his note is due for repayment Monday
~$15k total.
I need a way to ensure I get paid current and I don't
let him get behind during the 'sale'. I was thinking to
quit being the nice guy and demand the past due balance
+ the note in full + 3 months transit in advance so I
don't get screwed during the sale process if he gets
behind again. I don't know if he can even come up with
the money and my only leverage is to turn his port
down... I have a strange feeling he may try to stall me
as long as possible until the competition can thing in
transit and run off without paying the bill....
Sorry for he rant, just sick of helping people
because every time I do I end up regretting it.
TJ