Retire without switching the lights off on your clients

Plenty of Australian service businesses are still useful on the day the owner wants to stop. The failure is usually succession, not demand. A private sale is how those clients keep getting looked after.

Retirement sales stall when the owner waits until they are already gone in all but name. Buyers can work with a planned step-back. They struggle when the knowledge left the building six months earlier.

If you want a finite involvement after completion, say so. Some buyers want a short handover. Others will take the keys and let you leave.