You will sign a lease. The only question is whether you understand it before you do.
The average dental startup or practice purchase puts $3.1M at risk. Most dentists find out what was in their lease after they have already signed it. If you have not signed yet, this workshop was built for you.
What this workshop protects
Protect $3.1M
See the full capital at stake before a single signature.
Close Financing Faster
Remove the lease clauses banks quietly refuse to fund.
Exit On Your Terms
Structure assignment and sale rights years before you need them.
Know Before You Sign
Walk in with a due-diligence framework, not a hunch.
A practice is not a purchase. It is a portfolio of obligations.
A startup, relocation, or practice purchase is not only the price. You have to add the rent to the investment.
More than half of what you are committing in investment comes from the lease. This is the most critical document you will ever sign in your practice, and it has to last twenty-five years.
What You Don't Know Is Already Costing You
The loan closes. The buildout moves forward. The practice opens.
Then years later, after the bank has already lent, the mistakes surface. And they started with the site selection or practice purchase, and what was in the lease. The wrong location sets the trap. The lease locks it. By the time the bank calls, it is already too late. But dentists who understand both decisions before they make them build stronger practices, close financing faster, and sell for more when the time comes.
Most dentists think this is a $1.5M decision. The equipment, construction, or purchase price is $1.5M. The rent over the lease term is $1.6M. You are actually signing a $3.1M decision. Most dentists never see the second number coming.
- Poor site or practice selection. Emotional attachment to a space before proper due diligence leads to the wrong location, quietly undermining production and repayment capacity from day one.
- A demolition clause forces relocation mid-practice. The bank's collateral is suddenly at risk with outstanding debt still on the books.
- A weak assignment clause gives the landlord leverage to block a practice sale. This destroys the exit the loan was underwritten against.
- No exclusivity clause allows a competing practice into the same plaza. Profit drops, collateral value follows.
- Operating costs compound beyond projections. Cash flow tightens in ways that were not visible at loan approval.
9 out of 10 first-time dental leases contain at least one clause that works against the dentist. None of these are rare. This is the standard. The dentist who avoids them is the exception, not the rule.
The New Opportunity
The dentists who get this right do not just avoid problems. Whether they are starting, relocating, or purchasing a practice, they build or acquire something that performs from day one and sells for the number they planned.
- The right location or practice. Chosen with due diligence, not emotion. The location sets the ceiling on everything that follows.
- Financing that closes clean. No demolition clauses, no last-minute surprises. The bank reviews the lease and approves it.
- A lease that protects the practice. Assignment language that protects a future sale, exclusivity that keeps competitors out, terms that hold their value for 25 years.
- Growth on your terms. A second location, a relocation, or a future purchase, done with the same framework. The mistakes of the first were never made.
- An exit on your terms. The profit multiple your accountant planned for, the sale price your family is counting on, with no landlord holding it hostage.
Why Michael built this workshop
The day a dentist called me, his bank had just blocked his financing. Not because of his credit. Not because of his income. Because of a single demolition clause buried on page 14 of a lease nobody flagged. He had already signed. The contractor was standing by. That clause had been there from day one. Nobody on his team had the specific experience to see it coming. That is the only reason I built this workshop.
Most dentists spend 25 years learning what Michael already knows. This workshop is one day.
Michael has represented 1,500 dentists through their startup, relocation, or practice purchase. His firm has saved healthcare practitioners $600M across 4,000+ assignments. Board chair of the Canadian Cancer Society of Alberta, and a recipient of the Governor General's Award, one of Canada's highest civilian honours, for outstanding service to the Canadian Cancer Society.
A client outcome
His bank called to tell him they couldn't finance him because he had a demolition clause in the lease. His heart sank.
In Their Words
I wish I had Michael and his team advise me on my $2.2M practice purchase. The patients fled in droves, the selling dentist opened a new practice just outside the radius restriction, and we lost half our patient base.
I couldn't have done this alone and it's my second location. My experience was they were professional and had my best interests at heart. I highly recommend using Michael and his team.
What each unread clause is quietly worth.
Your Day: What to Expect
Real-World Cases
His bank called to tell him they couldn't finance him because he had a demolition clause in the lease. His heart sank.
The assignment clause gave the landlord the right to withhold consent to the sale unless the seller paid $75,000. It was in the lease from day one.
Everything required to walk in protected, and leave with a plan.
The average site or practice selection problem and lease mistake ranges from $150,000 to $1,500,000. That is less than 0.1% of what is at risk.
You get Michael for one hour. Your lease reviewed. Your site evaluated. Your questions answered.
Before you sign.
What Happens After You Register
Your confirmation and preparation guide
A short document that tells you exactly what to bring: your current lease, LOI, or shortlisted location, so your specific situation is ready to work through live.
You attend the full-day workshop
Site selection, the offer, the lease, clause by clause. Bring your questions. The final session is open Q&A with Michael on your specific situation.
You leave with a decision framework
Built around your specific situation. Every week after the workshop, Michael runs a one-hour open Q&A. Bring your deal. Get your answers. Details to follow.
Fifteen dentists. One day. A decision protected.
Hold your place or ask Michael a question first. Tell us where to reach you and a member of the firm will confirm your seat personally and send your pre-workshop due-diligence brief.
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Guarantee
Come for the full day. If by noon you have not identified a single lease or site risk worth at least $10,000, tell us. We will refund every dollar before you leave the room. No forms. No questions. No fine print.
This is a performance guarantee, not a satisfaction survey. The real question is not "Can I afford this workshop?" It is: "Can I afford to invest $3.1M without understanding these risks first?"