Buying, Building & Partnering

I have bought or started at least one practice a year for most of my career, three in one year at the peak, and I have made most of the mistakes on this list personally. The expensive ones are never clinical. They are a lease term nobody read, a partnership agreement that skipped the hard conversation, a purchase price built on the seller's story instead of the seller's tax returns.

This hub is for the dentist deciding whether to buy, build, partner or sell, and for the associate trying not to walk into the wrong practice. Read the red flags before you read anything else.