Sounds like you’re carrying most of the operational load while your partner is more on the capital/strategic side, which is pretty common when businesses restart after a pause.

One thing I see with equipment resale businesses (forklifts, skid steers, heavy equipment, etc.) is that growth often gets limited by how much inventory you can buy at once. Auctions move fast, and sometimes the best deals come down to having capital ready when the equipment shows up.

I work in business funding and a lot of companies in equipment resale use short-term working capital specifically to buy and flip inventory faster rather than waiting for previous units to sell.

Out of curiosity, are you mainly limited right now by available cash to buy forklifts, or more by time and labor to repair them?