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Nearly three in ten married couples with kids run the household on one paycheck. That number says a lot about what a fam...
11/02/2026

Nearly three in ten married couples with kids run the household on one paycheck. That number says a lot about what a family can actually afford.

Utah leads at 36.7%, followed by Alaska at 35.5% and New Mexico at 35.1%.

Washington, D.C. is lowest at 17.1%, with Minnesota at 18.1%.

Tennessee sits at 30.4% and Georgia at 29.0%, both above the national average of 28.2%.

The share jumps to 35.3% for families with children under six, right when childcare can run $6,500 to $15,600 per child per year.

For a lot of young families, the second income barely clears the daycare bill, so one parent steps back during the exact years they are trying to buy a first home. That means qualifying on a single income. In Atlanta and Chattanooga, price point, property taxes, and commute decide what those buyers can purchase.

Chart: Visual Capitalist.

Halloween is a $13.5 billion holiday. Spirit hired 52,000 people for it. For a lot of seasonal businesses, the year come...
10/31/2026

Halloween is a $13.5 billion holiday. Spirit hired 52,000 people for it. For a lot of seasonal businesses, the year comes down to six weeks.

That's the National Retail Federation's 2026 forecast, up from a record $13.1 billion last year: $4.4 billion on costumes, $4.3 billion on decorations and $4.1 billion on candy. Spirit Halloween staffed more than 1,500 stores for the season, the biggest hiring push in its history, for shops that open in August and close in November.

Plenty of service companies live on a calendar like that too. HVAC has July, landscaping has the spring, snow removal has a hard winter. The busy weeks pay for the year, and the slow months are when the hiring, training and planning get done for the next one.

Happy Halloween from The Nolan Scott Team.

One login. Every tool the office needs. Our operating platform for service businesses, shown here running at a sweeping ...
10/30/2026

One login. Every tool the office needs. Our operating platform for service businesses, shown here running at a sweeping company in Atlanta.

Swipe through: a Route Balancer that rebuilds the night's routes in one click when a driver calls out. A quoting tool that prices from the company's own time clocks instead of a gut number. A staff hub that puts every tool and document behind one front door. A prospect locator that shows where a new job fits the routes already running. An issues list with an owner and a close date on every item. Twelve HR forms filled on screen and printed clean.

None of it is a chatbot. Each one removes a job that used to take a person and a spreadsheet every week.

The same system rebuilds on your routes, your prices, and your forms. If you run crews, trucks, or technicians, this is what "runs without the owner" looks like.

Link in bio to book a working session.

There are three skilled-trade job openings for every qualified worker in America right now, per Lightcast's labor data. ...
10/29/2026

There are three skilled-trade job openings for every qualified worker in America right now, per Lightcast's labor data. The gap across electricians, plumbers and HVAC techs runs 1.3 million people.

Buyers know this. When they look at a service business, the trained, retained crew is the asset they cannot go hire on the open market, and they pay for it.

If you've built a team that shows up, you've built more value than your P&L shows. The Sale-Readiness Scorecard measures that too: https://www.nolanscottteam.com/scorecard

Paying more to live somewhere does not mean you live better there. A new ranking of 100 global cities makes that uncomfo...
10/28/2026

Paying more to live somewhere does not mean you live better there. A new ranking of 100 global cities makes that uncomfortably clear.

New York ranks in the 100th percentile for cost of living and the 20th for quality of life.

Los Angeles sits in the 95th percentile for cost and the 10th for quality of life. Chicago lands at 86th and 15th.

Porto ranks in the 96th percentile for quality of life at the 41st for cost. Only 18 of the 100 cities pair below-median cost with above-median quality.

Value is the gap between what a place costs and what daily life there delivers, and that gap is what moves people. It is the same math that has pushed households out of the most expensive U.S. metros and toward Atlanta, Nashville, and Chattanooga for a decade. Buyers are not chasing cheap. They are chasing a better return on their cost of living.

Chart: Visual Capitalist.

The Fed meets tomorrow. Its own September projections already said what most officials expect: a median rate of 4.1% at ...
10/27/2026

The Fed meets tomorrow. Its own September projections already said what most officials expect: a median rate of 4.1% at the end of 2026, with the range running to 4.4%, per the Fed's Summary of Economic Projections.

Read that as a seller. There is no cheaper money in the forecast this year. The cost of capital your buyer's lender uses today is the one to plan the exit on.

A deal that pencils at today's rate survives tomorrow's decision either way. One that only works if rates fall is a hope, not a plan.

We run the SBA Affordability Model on every listing so the ask clears underwriting at the current rate. If you are one to three years out, start there.

In 1990, health care was the top employer in zero states. Today it leads in 41.Manufacturing was the largest employment ...
10/26/2026

In 1990, health care was the top employer in zero states. Today it leads in 41.

Manufacturing was the largest employment sector in 35 states in 1990. In 2025 it holds that spot in just four: Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

Georgia and Tennessee both flipped from manufacturing to health care.

Hawaii and Nevada are the only states with the same top sector in both years, and in both it is hospitality.

Where people work decides where they live. Factory jobs once anchored housing demand around plants on the edge of town. Health care jobs cluster around hospital systems, which pulls demand toward medical corridors in Atlanta, Nashville, and Chattanooga and supports steady need for medical office space. It is also a sector tied to an aging population instead of the business cycle, which makes for a more stable base of buyers and renters.

Follow the largest employer and you will usually find the housing demand.

Chart: Visual Capitalist.

78% of business buyers expect to use SBA financing to complete their acquisition, per BizBuySell's latest Insight Report...
10/23/2026

78% of business buyers expect to use SBA financing to complete their acquisition, per BizBuySell's latest Insight Report.

So SBA eligibility is not a buyer's problem. It is the seller's. A company that cannot pass SBA underwriting, because the add-backs are undocumented, the books are messy, or the owner is the business, just lost three quarters of its buyer pool before the first showing.

Fixing that takes a year, not a month. Recast financials, documented systems, coverage that clears 1.25x.

The Sale-Readiness Scorecard measures exactly this in five minutes: https://www.nolanscottteam.com/scorecard

McKinsey puts the value of boomer-owned businesses heading to market this decade at up to $5 trillion.Buyers will have t...
10/22/2026

McKinsey puts the value of boomer-owned businesses heading to market this decade at up to $5 trillion.

Buyers will have their pick. And buyers with options buy proof: clean books, real earnings, a company that runs without its owner.

The sellers who get paid in a crowded market are the prepared ones. That preparation starts one to two years out.

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