Bettisfield Boats

Small is sometimes beautiful.

Bettisfield Boats was a holiday hire business with only 2 boats. The key was that those boats were targeted to individuals, couples but most definitely not the family market. This gave them a niche for week long bookings in smaller narrowboats that were well kept and suffered less damage without kids being about.

The emergency call out service also provided peace of mind for holiday-makers giving good reason to select this company over the next when making their choice of provider. Team all of this with the beautiful locations of the Llangollen and Montgomery canals through Shropshire and North Wales, and few could turn down holidaying in this part of the country.

As you know, we had tried to advertise the business ourselves, but got nowhere with it. Having decided to hire professional help you came across as the most complete and professional service of all the agents we saw. You actually seemed interested in us and selling our business.

Once that decision had been made, the service lived up to your promises. Alex kept us informed with what was going on and questions from enquirers were dealt with efficiently.

The advertising must have been well targeted as we had 5 seriously interested parties within 30 days of going to market with you.

Your attendance at the first viewing helped us negotiate an offer which covered all the necessary requirements and detail to allow us to complete the sale quickly and without problems.

Our expectations were to find a buyer, complete a deal and hand over the business by the end of the season in the Autumn. The reality is that from signing with you to sale has taken just 45 days and all before the season has even started, giving us an additional summer to enjoy our own boat.

Ian Fletcher, Bettisfield Boats