Rare Book & Record Business and Inventory Just Reduced! Start Price USD 99,000.00 Current Price USD 99,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 225,000.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, August 25, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 Location Fort Myers, FL See more about 'Rare Book & Record Business and Inventory Just Reduced!' Description Rare Book & Record Business and Inventory Just Reduced!  $225,000    Owner’s retiring! This is a chance of a lifetime to own and operate one of Southwest Florida's most rare and unique vintage book & record stores located in the River District of Historic Fort Myers in a 1912 Historic Commercial Victorian home. This business is located next door to Fort Myers newest and exciting tourist attraction, The Butterfly Estates. The attraction is expected to bring in 200,000 tourists annually and has a projected opening in October 2008. This location currently has a traffic count of 30,000 cars passing by each day. This is the time to take advantage of this fabulous growth opportunity.   Our massive collection has been beautifully maintained. The Collection consists of: rare, out of print, hard to find and signed edition books & records. The books are mostly first edition hard covers with archival mylar covers. The records consists of: 78's, 45's, 33's & boxed sets. The sale also includes: paper media, postcards, war memorabilia and thousands of collectible magazines and vintage gifts and inventory. Conservatively estimating 200,000 + Units, this inventory dates back to the 1800's to near present. The books and records have all been housed in temperature controlled atmospheres.  All book cases and business furniture, including some antiques, are included in the sale.   The business is affiliated with 3 major online booksellers and currently has a 5 star rating. The heart of the business is the data base of books which took 4 years of research and development and has over 10,000 books currently for sale to online buyers worldwide.   The sale of the business has a 3 or 5 year lease option w/ incentives. The asking price for the business is $225,000. The retail value of this inventory has been conservatively estimated at over 1.5 million. (The business and collection can also be purchased for relocation.)   There is an additional option to purchase the two Historic live/work Commercial buildings (4,800 square feet in all)   All questions will be answered to qualified and serious buyers only. Please include a brief outline of yourself & your interest in purchasing this very unique business and collection.   Please email me I would love to tell you more about this rare collection!  For links to see videos of the collection (and of the real estate), The videos are older and we have since done more landscaping and instore reorganizing. The videos are a little grainy but give a pretty good idea of what the inventory is like inside the store. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4366698117216014902http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2062303226773987553http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8782241737847586326  Place a Bid!