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My question is, should I take out a loan to purchase a family veterinary practice?

No way.

I hope you weren't listening to the last five minutes of the show. Oh, geez.

I was listening. Yes. Okay. Tell us why you were the exception. Oh, incredible. Now,

tell us more about this business. Yes. So, this is a father-daughter business. My father

owns the business. I have been working in the business for almost 11 years now

as an associate veterinarian. I'm not a partner. I'm not an owner. And I work full-time as a veterinarian.

I've got two little girls, beautiful little girls, one and four and a half. And my amazing husband works as a

school teacher. Awesome. And my, my, I guess my, currently the practice, um, is grossing last year in 24.

We gross 1.3 million and our profits are 80,000 a year.

My biggest question and my brother actually said that I should call and ask about this because my gut reaction is absolutely

no. I do not want to purchase this practice with a loan. But the reason the question is coming

up is because my husband and I, in June, finally paid off $250,000 in student loans. Yeah, you did. Congrats. Way to go. Thank you. Thank you.

And we are debt-free except our mortgage for the first time in our lives. Awesome. And it's

amazing. And you're like, why would I want to go back into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt?

Absolutely. yes.

So is your dad trying to get you, is he trying to get you to buy this, or has he offered it to sell to you?

How did it come up?

Yeah, so we've been talking about it for years now.

I'm pretty vested emotionally in the business.

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