If you are thinking of selling your business you may want to advertise it yourself in a newspaper or specialist commercial property paper or you may be considering using an agent. Selecting an Agent: As with any service you are considering purchasing we would offer the following advice – Try to get recommendations from people… Read Article →
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My name is Dawn Burdett and I’m a married mother of 2 from the East Midlands. I signed a contract with RTA in August 2005. Like Gill Draper, I didn’t have the up-front fee so they upped the withdrawal fee. Again, like Gill, the rep said the contract was for 12 months. He valued the… Read Article →
My name is Gill Draper. Me and my partner own a pub in Cambridgeshire. On the 23rd of November 2006 we asked for a rep from rta to come to see us, we had flown in from Spain as the people renting the pub wanted to come out so we decided to sell it.The salesman… Read Article →
My name is Tina Papworth. I signed up with RTA in Nov 2008. The sales man was very nice and I assumed the contract was like any other agents contract. 6 months into the agreement I asked to be released from the contract as my house was being repossessed but they refused. Nearly a year… Read Article →
My name is Majid Ahari. On March 20th 2009, RTA , following six months of intensive and aggressive Telephone calls /faxes to our office, came to our Havant office at Hampshire to price our Business (which was a Civil Engineering Company), their agent without inspecting our company’s accounts estimated price of our Business as £713K… Read Article →
My name is Mal. My husband and I have a greeting card shop. Someone from RTA called us in early January 2010 and as we’d been planning our retirement, we agreed to see one of their representatives on 26th January. The rep arrived and we discussed the sale in the shop, in between serving customers… Read Article →
I own a newsagents/off licence in Leeds in April 2006 we put it on the market with RTA, we paid an up front fee of £750 + vat. My Wife initialed all the monetary obligations on the contract with the representative but he never mentioned the withdrawl fee and never asked her to initial it… Read Article →
My very good friend was persuaded to sign up with RTA, having had several telephone calls asking to speak to the company owner and offering to sell his company. Because he wanted to sell, he arranged an appointment for RTA’s representative to come to see him. RTA’s man arrived, asked lots of questions, looked at… Read Article →
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/02/and-welcome-back-to-the-column.html 22nd FEBRUARY, 2012 After a brief absence, it’s time to welcome back RTA “business sales specialists”. We revealed last summer how the firm’s manager Ceri Edwards admitted its contracts were “draconian” and “heavily weighted in RTA’s favour”. Previously we’ve told of clients whose businesses were not sold but RTA still demanded huge fees. Now… Read Article →
http://www.conveniencestore.co.uk/advice/retail-advice/dear-jac/build-up-your-energy/224899.article 6th JANUARY, 2012 Despite what anyone in government ever says, there will be more rules and regs to comply with come April. One you need to know about, if you decide to put your business on the market, is an energy performance certificate (EPC). I became aware of this after two retailers contacted me… Read Article →