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Healthcare Exec -> $3.5M Premium Flooring Company
Helen Guo
March 23, 2026
Hey - Helen here,
Imagine you spent the last 25 years buying companies and managing over 450+ employees. Do you think you’d need help buying a small business?
Well, Ronnie didn’t think he did. He’d spent nearly three decades buying senior living facilities with private equity money.
He'd worked on more acquisitions than most people will see in a lifetime.
So, when he sold his stake in 2024 and decided to buy a business on his own, he figured this would be the easy part.
He spent six months searching solo. Reviewed over 70 businesses. When he needed a second opinion, he called bankers, insurance contacts, and friends in his network.
They would look at deals, but none of them understood the nuances of the small business acquisition process well enough to actually help.
The problem wasn't experience or knowledge. Ronnie had plenty of both.
But he realized purchasing a small business with your own money is a completely different process than using someone else's cash.
And he had no one in his corner who'd actually been through it.
In January 2025, he joined SMB Deal Hunter Pro. Here's what he said about the first time he asked a question on Slack:
"The first time I submitted a question on Slack. And I got a voice recording back. I believe it was Bill... It was like somebody gets it, somebody's talking to me and saying, look, be careful with this, ask this question. We've seen this happen before."
Eight months later, he closed on a $3.5M premium flooring company in Charleston, SC.
But it wasn’t all smooth sailing…
In this case study we break his top challenges:
#1: How he dealt with his COO abandoning him 30 days after he closed (and how it ended up being a blessing in disguise)
#2: How he structured a $3.5M deal with no seller financing (and still had 5 lenders fighting to fund it)
#3: Why he decided to skip retirement and build something with his son (that he can hand down)
Ronnie leaned on our battle-tested deal team to help him…
Source his deals on and off-market (personalized exactly to his needs)
Navigate every step of the process from the first broker call to closing day (one on one)
And ultimately help him not just buy a business, but one he can grow and succeed with…
So, if you want to buy a $1M+ business in the next 6-12 months, but don’t want to spend years spinning your wheels alone, let’s talk.
Talk soon,
Helen Guo
👀 P.S. If you want to close a business in 2026, the clock is already running. Our average Pro member time to close is 8 months, which means Q1 is about when you'd want to get started.
Over the past 12 months, our members have closed $148M in deals, with 1:1 access to our M&A advisors and a private off-market marketplace adding 10-20 listings every week.
We wanted to make the program more accessible to anyone serious about closing on a business this year, so we're offering a one-time bonus that’s expiring in 8 days.
So if you've been waiting for the right time to make a move….