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Ep 4 - A Pest Control Stay Bonus may Avoid Extortion at the Closing

Paul and Patrick discuss the importance of how a pest control business can deploy a stay bonus program. Find out how one management team without a stay bonus program tried to extort $1 million from a seller at the closing of the sale of his pest control business.

Patrick learns about what happened to the family of a seller who died of a heart attack the day before the sale of his business.

Current events in the pest control industry - Paul talks about his bank's overzealous posturing with "Project Warrior". Also, now that the activist hedge fund, Third Point, has acquired a 3.1 million share stake in ServiceMaster, does this mean that ServiceMaster will be taken private or acquired?

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May 21, 2020

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