How do you usually see those play out? And what's your recommendation to those owners?

That's where if the partners are at loggerheads, and particularly if it's a 50-50 partnership where neither party can force the sale or drive a process, that's when you do want to bring in professional help to try to resolve the conflict.

Identify what the potential solutions are, right? Some of the solutions might be one partner buying the other partner out.

Some solutions may be just trying to uncover, hey, what's at the root of the disagreements here and how do we address that, right? So getting some type of counselor, not any different than a marriage, right? And there are folks out there that specialize in that.

Or, hey, the solution here is to go find a third party to buy the business such that one or both partners can work towards their retirement.

So you have, you know, there's a number of different options that are available and it really comes down to, at some level, How well is the business doing in spite of it? If there's a lot of partner conflict and the business performance is not going well, your options get a lot more limited.

Buyers are going to see right through any partner conflict, even if you tried to disguise it.

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