The bestselling Tips & Traps series helps you avoid bad investments and common mistakes as you build a new business

In this time of mass layoffs, stock market instability, and low interest rates, you might be interested in buying your own businesses—but don’t know where to start. Tips & Traps When Buying a Business gives a step-by-step approach to finding and financing an established small business or franchise. Greg Balanko- Dickson provides the skills to make the correct decisions for everything from investigating a business and arranging financing to hiring professionals, cutting costs, and negotiating a deal.