{"id":161299,"date":"2023-06-19T09:06:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=161299"},"modified":"2023-06-19T11:21:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:21:34","slug":"a-good-living-if-somebody-wants-to-do-it-sackville-cab-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/a-good-living-if-somebody-wants-to-do-it-sackville-cab-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A good living if somebody wants to do it\u2019 \u2014 Sackville Cab up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sackville Cab is up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Larry Parsons says he put the business up for sale a few weeks ago because he\u2019s hoping to retire this summer, but he says its been a good business for the last 25 years. \u201cI don\u2019t want to sell,\u201d says Parsons. \u201cI\u2019m 65 and I\u2019m tired\u2026. Your body can only handle so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The business is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royallepage.ca\/en\/property\/new-brunswick\/sackville\/15-pringle\/19742529\/mlsm152879\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">listed online for $140,000<\/a>, and Parsons says he is represented by Sackville realtor Grace Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Right now the business employs five drivers, and Parsons says if he can\u2019t find a buyer he will be scaling back to about 40% of his current workload. The business includes four to five cars, radios, the Sackville cab phone number, and a number of regular contracts that provide a steady income for the business.<\/p>\n<p>The contracts include school runs to Cap Pel\u00e9 and Rockport, a daily work commuter, and transportation for Mount Allison, the hospital, and Ambulance NB. \u201cWe have four cars going most the time,\u201d says Parsons. \u201cI just don\u2019t know what everybody\u2019s gonna do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of Parsons\u2019s customers don\u2019t drive or have access to a vehicle. One customer jokingly told him she hopes she\u2019s passed on before he manages to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Costs have gone up over the years, says Parsons, but the business is still viable. \u201cIn the last five years, everything\u2019s doubled,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s still a living, and still good living if somebody wants to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sackville Cab is up for sale. Owner Larry Parsons says he put the business up for sale a few weeks ago because he\u2019s hoping to retire this summer, but he says its been a good business for the last 25 years. \u201cI don\u2019t want to sell,\u201d says Parsons. \u201cI\u2019m 65 and I\u2019m tired\u2026. Your body&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":161303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,2602],"tags":[3949,27266,3277],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161622,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161299\/revisions\/161622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161299"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=161299"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=161299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}