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    <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">You can check with a
      business broker (real estate licensee), but I suspect that unless
      the business can actually be sold as a going concern (due to a
      list of repeat customers), its value is basically the estate sale
      value of the tools.</font><br>
    <br>
    Doug Schafer<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/9/2015 11:18 AM, Cyrus Field
      wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Does anyone
            have any suggestions on how to value a small sole proprietor
            business for probate purposes that has less than a $1,000
            worth of tools of the trade and less than $20k/year in gross
            revenue?  Given its small size, and that of the estate in
            general,  we’d like to avoid the expense of getting a full
            blown business appraisal if possible. Thanks in advance, Cy
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Cyrus W.
              Field, Attorney at Law (admitted in Washington and Oregon)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">phone:
              360-472-1223 Mail: POB 367, Shaw Island, WA 98286 Office:
              640 Mullis St. Friday Harbor, WA</span></i><span
            style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D">******************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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