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5 Due-Diligence Failures That Sink a Florida Small-Business Purchase

The money you lose buying a Florida business is almost never the price you negotiated: it is what you did not check before signing. A 30-year attorney walks through the five buy-side due-diligence failures that cost buyers the most: inherited sales-tax liability under s. 213.758, unreleased UCC liens, an un-assignable lease, licenses that do not transfer, and employment and injury claims that follow the business.