New Deals: A dumpster rental marketplace, plumbing business, and 3 other finds

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1/ Dumpster Rental Marketplace

📍 Location: Texas (Remote)
💰 Asking Price: $5,650,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,130,000
📊 Revenue: $8,060,000
📅 Established: 2013

💭 My 2 Cents: What’s crazy about U.S. waste management and hauling is that even though it's a $90–100 billion industry, over 70% of transactions are still handled manually via phone calls and paper tickets. Plus, dumpster rentals tie to diverse sectors such as construction, renovation, roofing, clean-outs, disaster cleanup, and municipal work, many of which are recession-resilient. That’s why I was excited to come across a two-sided online marketplace operating across 60 U.S. markets that connects homeowners and contractors with local dumpster suppliers through a proprietary online ordering system. A key feature is that, as a middleman, they don’t carry any inventory, keeping capex low, enabling scalable growth without investing in trucks, and reducing physical labor requirements. They’ve facilitated over 75,000 contracts to date, are home-based with two retiring owners each working fewer than 10 hours per week, and rely on a skilled team of contract workers as needed. While their numbers look strong, I’d want to dig into their customer acquisition cost by channel (SEO, LSA, paid search, referrals), average customer lifetime value (since contractors often order multiple dumpsters per month per job site), and vendor acquisition strategy. There’s also a clear exit play as both strategic waste management players and private equity roll-ups are actively acquiring tech-enabled brokers and marketplace operators.

2/ Plumbing Business

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $6,500,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,250,000
📊 Revenue: $5,750,000
📅 Established: 1984

💭 My 2 Cents: This plumbing contractor has been serving Northwest Florida’s commercial (65%) and residential (35%) markets for over 40 years, handling everything from underground utility work and water and sewer systems to certified natural gas piping, grease traps, generator hookups, and medical installations and repairs. Their breadth of specialized offerings lets them differentiate from a large swath of competitors while helping to bring in more high-margin, technically demanding projects. They employ a skilled team that includes state-certified master plumbers and medical gas specialists (meaning you don’t need to rely on the seller’s license), operate from a 10,000 sq ft facility (available for purchase at $750K or lease at $10K/month), and come with $1M+ in equipment and $90K in inventory. I’d want to get a handle on their revenue split between ongoing maintenance contracts and one-time jobs, what their current work-in-progress, backlog, and pipeline look like, how they source new business, how much work on the commercial side is bid-based vs repeat, and the age and condition of their major vehicles and equipment. This looks like a chance to acquire a longstanding, need-based business with strong technical depth and meaningful upside in Florida’s thriving Panhandle.

3/ Excavation Company

📍 Location: Illinois
💰 Asking Price: $11,000,000
💼 EBITDA: $2,906,000
📊 Revenue: $12,096,000
📅 Established: 15+ Years Ago

💭 My 2 Cents: Excavation is at the start of almost every construction, utility, and infrastructure project, and the work literally can’t begin without it. This excavation company operates within a 100-mile radius of Chicago, an area flush with public funding for roadwork, sewer replacement, and utility upgrades. Even if new residential or commercial construction faces a slowdown (always a possibility), demand should remain somewhat insulated from adverse market conditions. They have extremely strong cash flow and great margins for their industry, a solid base of long-term employees, and nearly $3M of FF&E (included in the asking price) consisting of 33 pieces of well-maintained and fully paid-off heavy equipment and machinery. This level of hard assets provides both downside protection and a serious barrier to entry for potential competitors. I’d want to understand their revenue breakdown between municipal and private projects, how far out their backlog and pipeline extend, the impact of weather or seasonal downtime on margin consistency, and their bonding capacity, which determines their maximum project size and overall growth ceiling. Ultimately, billions of dollars are flowing into roads, bridges, and public works through state and federal programs (IIJA, Rebuild Illinois), giving local contractors like this one multi-year visibility of funded projects.

4/ CPA Firm

📍 Location: Texas (semi-virtual)
💰 Asking Price: $2,845,000
💼 EBITDA: $760,370
📊 Revenue: $1,750,000
📅 Established: 2012

💭 My 2 Cents: This CPA firm in North Dallas focuses on a niche client base of businesses and business owners. I really like that 60 percent of their income is derived from recurring monthly fixed-fee services, a subscription-style revenue base that is uncommon in traditional accounting. I also like how their revenue is balanced between accounting/bookkeeping (60%) and tax work (40%), so unlike many CPA firms, they are not unduly dependent on tax season. Another key positive is their fully staffed, largely remote team, which offers the ability to scale as needed, with this semi-virtual model allowing for both low fixed overhead and access to wider talent pools. I’d need to find out what specific industries their clients belong to, if there is any risk of concentration among their top clients, what their average client renewal rate and tenure are, how they typically acquire new clients, what technologies and systems they use to enable their semi-virtual operations, how many CPAs other than the owner are on staff, and how dependent they are on the owner for client relationships. The accounting industry is undergoing aggressive consolidation, with both PE-backed platforms and regional roll-ups seeking tech-forward, recurring-revenue firms, so buying now could provide an attractive short-term exit opportunity once scale or process improvements are in place.

5/ Shade Structure Manufacturer

📍 Location: Texas
💰 Asking Price: $5,750,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,237,213
📊 Revenue: $2,594,574
📅 Established: 2006

💭 My 2 Cents: This manufacturing and installation company specializes in custom shade structures for primarily commercial clients, including restaurants, parks, parking lots, car washes, and auto dealerships. In addition to selling directly to clients and handling installs, they provide their in-house manufactured shade structures wholesale to other distributors. I like their business model with strong margins, as they have a very lean six-member team, which they can flex up with additional contractors as needed, and they stay asset-light, as materials are only ordered once jobs are sold. I also like the powerful tailwinds from post-COVID outdoor expansion, public-sector investment, and commercial growth in sectors like car washes and auto dealerships, along with design trends that blend aesthetics with function and a timeless need for weather protection. Plus, the recurring replacement cycle that takes place every 5–7 years also lets them re-engage with past clients. I’d be curious as to their revenue mix between direct-to-consumer projects and wholesale manufacturing, the extent of their internal manufacturing (is it mostly assembly?), sensitivity to material costs, barriers to entry in their niche, and scalability of operations in support of expansion. The current owner has intentionally kept things small and local, but national demand is clear, so a buyer could potentially expand by hiring additional installation staff and sales reps, positioning this as a rare, high-margin manufacturing business with strong upside potential.