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My name is Leo Castro.

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I'm the former owner
of Ace Fire Sprinklers and A Fire

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Protection Plus,
now the branch manager for the locations.

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I'm Kathy.
I'm his wife,

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and I am the office manager of our
branch in Hialeah in South Florida.

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Most of the times when there's
acquisition, you just blend into the new

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company and just the whole
business just disappears.

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Their system is completely different.

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They allow you to function
because it kind of makes sense.

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If they purchase a business that was
successful, why change the strategy?

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It's your baby.

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You've had it for 28 years.

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You're your own boss.

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You don't have to follow
any anybody's guidelines.

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And that's always going to be
tough transition period like that.

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Of course,

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it was definitely tough for us.

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Looking back now,
here we are, almost a year.

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I don't regret it one bit.

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Our values and morals kind of aligned with

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with everyone from the get
go, from our initial meeting.

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So it made it that much easier
to consider, even though we weren't

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looking to do it, just started
to make more and more sense.

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They have a reputation that has been
proven time and time again.

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They had so many locations
across the country.

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And again, you have the opportunity

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possibly to stay on board for whatever
amount of time is agreed upon.

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And that gives you,
instead of closing your doors,

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once you're done retiring,
you have that opportunity to stay on board

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in a different capacity and then make your
exit at the time you're ready to do so.