New Deals: A card laundromat with real estate, boatyard with general manager, and 3 other finds...

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📍 Location: Washington
💰 Asking Price: $2,999,000
💼 EBITDA: $868,000
📊 Revenue: $2,972,114
📅 Established: 2019

💭 My 2 Cents: New powerboat sales fell 9% in the year to January 2026, but a boatyard works on boats people already own, and there are still more than 11.7 million registered boats. This company runs two full-service yards in Washington with a 100-ton travel lift (the crane that carries a boat out of the water), a two-booth paint shop, and mechanic and fabrication shops. A general manager promoted from the crew runs the yards day to day and is staying on. It also trains and certifies its own crews through an in-house program that transfers with the sale, so new hires get certified here rather than recruited already trained. That said, I'd want to know what has driven revenue past four times its 2023 level, split between yard work and the in-house brokerage, because that tells you how much of the growth will continue to repeat. With no Saturday work and a second shift available, how full the lift and paint booths run today is what I'd pin down next, as the gap is growth that needs more crew, not more equipment. Then, since a used-boat sale usually includes a haul-out for the buyer's survey, I'd ask how many of the nine boats the brokerage has sold in 2026 came out of the water at its own yards, which shows whether the brokerage feeds the yard. The good news is a 27-year lease is available to sign at the main yard, well past the 10 years an SBA lender usually wants a lease to cover, so that yard is ready for a buyer's SBA loan.

📍 Location: New Jersey
💰 Asking Price: $7,200,000
💼 EBITDA: $795,040
📊 Revenue: $1,214,000
📅 Established: 2000

💭 My 2 Cents: Part of why buyers like laundromats is that there’s almost nothing to invoice, and a card laundromat collects even earlier: customers load money onto a laundry card that only works at that one store before a single machine starts. This laundromat has run since 2000, offering self-service and wash-and-fold, and the sale includes its 9,000 sq ft corner building, where a martial arts studio and a dental office pay rent next to the laundromat. The $795,040 in earnings is $624,224 from the laundromat plus $170,816 of building rent, and the laundromat is one of the building’s three spaces. The first thing I’d want to know is how much money is sitting on customers’ cards right now, since the seller has already collected it and the buyer is the one who’ll run the machines it pays for. Then how much of the laundromat’s revenue is wash-and-fold, and whether it offers pickup and delivery, since that’s the part that can grow without waiting for more people to walk in. And how long the martial arts studio’s and dental office’s leases run, and what the rent does over that time, since that rent is a little over a fifth of the earnings. Set those aside, and the machines are one cost a buyer won’t face soon: all 111 were replaced in a 2019 renovation, and commercial washers and dryers like these usually run 12 to 15 years, so the next full refit lands in the early 2030s.

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $3,600,000
💼 EBITDA: $970,279
📊 Revenue: $2,870,222
📅 Established: 2020

💭 My 2 Cents: In non-emergency medical transportation (the vans that take Medicaid patients to appointments and home again), a dialysis patient books the same six rides every week: treatment runs three times a week to the clinic and back for as long as the treatment lasts. This company has run in South Florida since 2020, and more than 30 standing dialysis patients ride with it on that schedule, along with 7 contracted therapy clinics and discharges from a major health system, using 20 owned vehicles. It is a preferred provider with Florida's largest Medicaid ride brokers (the companies that assign the trips Medicaid pays for), so it gets offered trips ahead of the broader network. That said, the first thing I would dig into is how the drivers are paid, since 20 vehicles and four employees almost certainly means they're contractors, and that tells you what each trip costs to run. Then the written terms behind the preferred status with each broker, including how it's earned and how often it's reviewed, which shows how secure the company's first look at trips is. And the revenue split between broker trips and work billed directly to the hospital and clinics, since those direct relationships are the part a broker doesn't hand out. One thing here you don't have to guess at is the cash: trips are invoiced Monday and about 90% is paid by Thursday, so a buyer's money goes into the purchase rather than into funding receivables.

📍 Location: North Carolina
💰 Asking Price: $2,150,000
💼 EBITDA: $537,277
📊 Revenue: $1,525,843
📅 Established: N/A

💭 My 2 Cents: Hybrid striped bass can’t be used to breed the next generation, so every farm that raises them needs a new batch of young fish (called fingerlings) every year, and only 7 of the country’s 57 hybrid striped bass farms sold fingerlings in 2023. That gives a hatchery customers who need to buy again every season. This farm breeds its own fingerlings, crossing striped bass males with white bass females as one of only three hatcheries in North Carolina, then sells fingerlings to other farms and grows the rest to about 2 pounds for fresh-fish distributors in the Northeast and Midwest. Breeding is the harder half of that work, since it means catching, hauling, and holding wild parent fish under state rules. I’d want to know who owns the land under the ponds, how long the lease runs, and what the rent does over that time, because the ponds don’t come with the sale and can’t be moved. The revenue split between fingerlings and food fish comes next, along with how many fingerling buyers came back this year. I’d also want to know where the parent fish come from each spring and under which permits, since every year’s crop starts with them. Worth noting: the price moves with the fish in the ponds, adjusted at closing for inventory worth anywhere from $300,000 to $900,000 depending on the month, so the month a buyer closes in can move the check written at closing by as much as $600,000.

📍 Location: Oklahoma
💰 Asking Price: $2,500,000
💼 EBITDA: $606,000
📊 Revenue: $2,517,000
📅 Established: 2011

💭 My 2 Cents: A farm supply company that also sprays what it sells gets paid twice on the same acre: once for the chemical or fertilizer, and again to put it on the field. This company has done both since 2011 for growers within about 100 miles across Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, with two owned sprayer rigs on the ground plus work by air. About 80% of its sales are chemical and fertilizer that growers use up and buy again every crop year. Oklahoma won't license a spraying business unless a certified applicator is named on its license, but the applicator on staff is willing to stay with a new owner, so a buyer doesn't need that credential to step in. How many acres the two rigs covered last season, set next to what they could cover, is the number I'd want first, since spare time on rigs already paid for is growth without buying another rig. Behind that, how much of the spraying is done by air, and since there's no plane in the equipment list, who flies it and how much of that fee this company keeps. And the receivables at the busiest point of the season, because on net-30 terms the cash a buyer needs is set by the peak month, not the average one. On the growth side, it has never done any formal marketing, so its customers have come from reputation and referrals for 15 years, which makes this a business for a buyer who can sell.