New Deals: An asbestos removal company, specialty box manufacturing business, and 3 other finds

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1/ Asbestos, Lead, and Mold Removal Company

📍 Location: New York
💰 Asking Price: $7,500,000
💼 EBITDA: $2,295,000
📊 Revenue: $10,000,000
📅 Established: 1990

💭 My 2 Cents: Asbestos, lead, and mold removal is not only an essential, non-discretionary service, it’s also legally mandated in many situations. This environmental abatement company, operating for 35 years, has a proven track record serving residential, commercial, and public buildings across NYC and Long Island. They come with a highly skilled staff, all required (and hard-to-secure) state and city licenses, plus a facility and real estate valued at $1.7M. On top of that, the asking multiple is very reasonable for a business generating over $2M in EBITDA. I’d want to dig into their relationships with builders, municipalities, and property managers (and whether there’s concentration risk), their backlog and active contracts, seasonal revenue patterns, depth of licensed supervisors/foremen, and their liability and compliance history. Ultimately, this business benefits from strong tailwinds, as aging infrastructure and ongoing renovations across NYC and Long Island ensure recurring abatement demand.

2/ Specialty Box Manufacturing Business

📍 Location: New Jersey
💰 Asking Price: $675,000
💼 EBITDA: $375,000
📊 Revenue: $2,100,000
📅 Established: 70 Years Ago

💭 My 2 Cents: I always love a niche business with a long history. This specialty packaging manufacturer has operated for over 70 years, producing a wide range of custom presentation boxes. What I like about this niche is that presentation boxes are not pure commodities (design, quality, and branding still matter). This allows for higher margins compared to corrugated/standard packaging. Plus, many industries (luxury goods, jewelry, cosmetics, spirits, marketing agencies) continually require custom boxes for product launches and seasonal campaigns. That said, I’d want to understand which verticals drive demand (luxury goods, corporate gifting, spirits, cosmetics) and whether they’re more recession-resistant or largely discretionary. I’d also want to check their gross margins over time to see if they’re being squeezed by cheaper offshore competition, whether there are retention risks with skilled machine operators or key managers, and if any major capex investment will be required for their specialty equipment. Given their long history, there should be highly skilled management already in place, so this looks like an attractive turnkey opportunity at a very favorable multiple.

3/ Aluminum Service Business

📍 Location: United States
💰 Asking Price: $2,100,000
💼 EBITDA: $767,656
📊 Revenue: $3,403,811
📅 Established: 2018

💭 My 2 Cents: This Southwest Florida aluminum company specializes in soffit, fascia, and gutter services, primarily supporting residential homebuilders in the Cape Coral area, driving steady repeat business. In a relatively short time, they’ve carved out a profitable niche in a strong housing market, achieving consistent sales year over year and generating at least $700K of SDE annually for the past three years with a 9-person team. While their track record is impressive, the key diligence concern is their dependence on the local housing cycle. Cape Coral is one of the fastest-growing housing markets in Florida, with demand for aluminum services outpacing supply, but a downturn in new construction could pose significant risk. I’d also want to check revenue concentration among the top 3–5 homebuilders, how aluminum price fluctuations are managed (e.g., pass-through clauses with builders), and who currently holds the qualifying license. For a growth-minded buyer, once processes are standardized, the model offers clear potential to expand into neighboring Florida metros with similar housing growth dynamics.

4/ Land Surveying and Mapping Business

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $2,499,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,015,684
📊 Revenue: $2,228,506
📅 Established: 1982

💭 My 2 Cents: This company has operated across Florida for over 40 years, providing survey and mapping services for everything from residential projects to multi-thousand-acre highway and mall developments. Though it’s a project-based business, surveys are required in both up and down markets (real estate, refinancing, public works), and builders, architects, and municipalities often bring repeat business. I really like how they’ve generated an average of over $1M in SDE each of the past 4 years with 15 employees, showing consistent profitability along with extremely strong margins. I’d want to dig into the revenue mix across residential, commercial, and public sector projects, their current backlog and pipeline, if there are multiple licensed surveyors or just one, and how they keep up with the latest advances in surveying technology. One sticky point is that the seller is asking for a very limited non-compete agreement (1 year, 30 miles), but if you can work through that, it’s hard to think of a more essential construction-related business than surveying in the booming Sunshine State.

5/ Shipping Business

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $8,000,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,750,000
📊 Revenue: $29,524,128
📅 Established: 2021

💭 My 2 Cents: The trucking market is extremely fragmented, so I was impressed with this Florida-based nationwide transportation company that has quickly scaled into a large, cash-flowing business since launching in 2021. Their business model is designed for passive ownership, supported by a professional 9-member management team, outsourced overseas dispatch operations, and more than 100 drivers. Their asking price of $8M is not as high a multiple as it first seems, as it incorporates $2.2M in FF&E, including their fleet of over 60 trucks and trailers. Freight volumes swing with the economy, so I’d need to make sure they’re not overexposed to highly cyclical end customers (e.g., construction, autos, discretionary retail) and understand the types of contracts they have in place that may stabilize revenue (do they have multi-year contracts with minimum volume commitments?). I’d also want to understand their driver turnover rates, pay competitiveness, and recruiting pipeline (the driver shortage is real), how fuel, insurance, and wage costs are managed in their contract structures (especially since this industry runs on tight margins), and importantly, why the owner is selling after such a strong start. Ultimately, you’re buying into a massive, essential industry that’s finally undergoing modernization.