Georgia Association of Business Brokers
At a Glance
A membership list with a licensing rule behind it, which is more than most directories can say.
- Pricing
- Free, Free to buyers: the directory and the member listings are public. The price below is what a MEMBER pays: $440 a year for all members, prorated daily to the first of January.
- Best For
- Georgia buyers who want a membership list with a real licensing requirement behind it
- Kind
- Not a brokerage at all: a membership body with a directory you search yourself.
- Footprint
- Names Georgia. It presents that list as its whole territory.
- Seller Fee
- Charges no seller fee. It represents no seller, so there is no sell-side fee to publish.
- Roadmap Stages
- 2. Define & Test Your Thesis4. Source & Screen Deals
Pros and Cons
Pros
- The only association here that requires a state license of its broker members, which is a checkable bar rather than a code of ethics
- Public directory, sortable and paginated, with member listings beside it
- Publishes its own scale on the homepage: founded 1986, with member and listing counts stated openly
- Publishes dues to the dollar, including the proration rule
Cons
- One state, and the license rule means it will stay that way
- The directory sorts but does not filter by geography inside Georgia, so a reader outside Atlanta pages through Atlanta brokers
- A small inventory: the association is a routing layer rather than a market
What Searchers Say
License requirement, dues, directory behaviour and homepage figures read from its own pages.
How to Approach
Georgia Association of Business Brokers is a trade association rather than a brokerage, and it works for the seller rather than for you, so this is how that side of the table comes in and what it is deciding about you.
The Typical Arc
- You search the member directory yourself, by market and by credential.
- You contact firms directly, because the body places nobody with anybody.
- Everything after that is the individual firm's process, not the association's.
What the Directory Tells You
- Membership and credential rather than results: it lists brokers who joined and certified.
- Nothing about you at all, because it represents no seller and screens no buyer.
- Nothing about a fee, because the fee is the member firm's and never the body's.
How to Prepare
- Filter to your market first, then read each firm the way you would read any other.
- Write the profile once and reuse it with every firm you contact. Buyer Profile Builder