A concerned individual reviews financial documents in a vehicle parked near delivery vans, highlighting the complexities of assessing a FedEx contractor's financial health. Mark signed a $1,325,000 LOI on a 14-route pickup-and-delivery contract in March. The broker's package showed $366,200 in adjusted EBITDA, three years of tax returns, and a clean 3.6x multiple. He had his SBA pre-qualification letter in hand and a closing date circled on the calendar. Six weeks later, the

A signature on an LOI is easy. Verifying the numbers behind it before that signature is the part buyers skip Marcus had the CIM open on one screen and a signed LOI drafted on the other. The broker's package showed a $1,850,000 route with $355,000 in adjusted EBITDA and a DSCR north of 1.4x — numbers that made the SBA loan look like a formality. He wired the good-faith deposit three days later. Six weeks into underwriting, the bank's credit analyst sent back a different set of

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