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I’m excited to share 5 new businesses for sale worth checking out in this Market Watch issue. Each was handpicked from hundreds of fresh listings, with our quick take on why it stands out. First up...

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1/ Nail Salon

📍 Location: Arizona
💰 Asking Price: $2,150,000
💼 EBITDA: $550,612
📊 Revenue: $2,009,391
📅 Established: 2020

💭 My 2 Cents: Manicurist jobs are projected to grow 9% over the next decade against 3% for all jobs, a small luxury that holds up across incomes. The chairs are the cheap part of a nail salon and the licensed hands are the hard part: Arizona wants 600 hours of school before anyone touches a client. This one runs 22 nail and 18 pedicure stations in 2,300 square feet, with the owner out of the day-to-day and leaving the state. A long-time employee came back eight months ago to run the floor, and 21 technicians currently work a remodeled space built for 28 to 30. That said, these financials are eight months of 2026 annualized, the same eight months she has been back, so I'd want 2022 and 2023 beside them, since she worked here in both and that is the level she is aiming at. I'd also pull the technicians' pay arrangement, since 23% of this trade works for itself: a salon of renters is a landlord, a salon of employees an operator. Then what the manager is paid and whether any of it moves with the number of chairs filled, since a salary pays the same whether 21 technicians show up or 30. The lease runs to November 2034 with two five-year options behind it, and in a trade where the whole build is sunk into one address, that term buys years to grow into this location rather than pricing a move.

2/ Roll-Off Dumpster Rental Company

📍 Location: Missouri
💰 Asking Price: $1,895,000
💼 EBITDA: $441,734
📊 Revenue: $2,736,133
📅 Established: N/A

💭 My 2 Cents: A roll-off is the open-top steel box that stands outside a gut renovation. One flat charge of roughly $580 to $890 covers the drop-off, the haul away, and the landfill fee, with 7 to 10 days of use and a weight allowance of about 1 to 5 tons built in. This company runs 5 trucks and 160 containers for repeat commercial contractors, restoration companies, and homeowners. A general manager handles the day to day while the owner works on sales and growth. The obvious growth opportunity is junk removal, and most of the equipment for it is already in the yard. The first thing I'd look into is what the containers actually weigh coming back, since the flat price only covers the first few tons and the landfill bills by weight for everything past that, so a heavy box earns less than the invoice says. Then I'd pull the dispatch records, because 160 boxes against this revenue works out to roughly two pulls a box a month, and that average hides how many run every week and how many sit in the yard. The restoration share is one more number I'd want, since water and fire damage do not wait on a construction cycle. Most businesses hold their capacity in people and pay for it whether the phone rings or not. Here the capacity is 160 steel boxes, and a slow month costs only the money already spent on them.

3/ Tire, Wheel and Alignment Shop

📍 Location: Alabama
💰 Asking Price: $2,900,000
💼 EBITDA: $587,400
📊 Revenue: $1,794,725
📅 Established: 1981

💭 My 2 Cents: Hit a pothole hard enough and the alloy wheel bends before the tire does, and the bend shows up as a shake in the steering and a slow leak. Straightening it runs $75 to $400, and there is no parts cost inside that number, only labor on a machine the shop already owns. This store straightens and refinishes wheels on site, and has sold tires and done alignments, front end repair, and brakes under one family since 1981. 12 full-time people work the floor, at roughly $150,000 of revenue a head. The split between tire sales and labor tells you the most, since a tire is a commodity somebody else makes while an alignment is an hour this shop owns, and the wheel work needs its own line inside that: what it bills, and whether it walks in or comes from other shops. Another piece is the building, not in the sale but offered to lease, so the rent a buyer signs sets how much margin survives. The $250,000 of inventory also sits outside the asking figure, so I'd want to know how much of it is actually moving, since a tire that has sat a year is not worth what the seller paid for it. More than 110 million vehicles are in the 6-to-14-year window where they roll off warranty and their owners start shopping, and a buyer is stepping into a share of the fleet still climbing through 2028.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Chris spent his career at companies like Microsoft and SAP, and his last 4 years as a CEO still answering to a board.

By the end, his job had become what he calls a "keep the lights on" role… cut costs, don't invest, don't expand.

And as he puts it: "I'm not a 22-year-old who has 40 years … to pursue [this]. It's 10 years or less."

He didn't want to spend those years on someone else's vision.

So he joined SMB Deal Hunter Pro and spent the next 11 months searching, and vetting dozens of deals.

He came close twice: a machine shop he lost on price, and a $9M-a-year construction company he walked away from.

The one that finally fit was 2 franchise territories.

He'd had franchise brokers pitching him from the start, but didn't feel confident going it alone.

With our help, he and his partner signed a $925K deal for 2 territories of Pirtek.

Pirtek replaces the hydraulic hoses on heavy equipment used in farming, mining, forestry and construction.

Today, he's hiring his team for a November launch, with $350K to $400K a year in profit projected after year one.

4/ Pest Control Company

📍 Location: Texas
💰 Asking Price: $2,300,000
💼 EBITDA: $753,000
📊 Revenue: $2,900,000
📅 Established: 2006

💭 My 2 Cents: Pest control is popular for the recurring revenue, and a quarterly residential plan runs $400 to $1,200 a year. Wildlife is the other half of this trade and it brings the big tickets: getting the animal out averages $200 to $600, and cleaning, sanitizing and re-insulating the attic behind it runs $2,200 to $6,200. A company doing both has a base that renews and jobs that pay like a renovation. This one has worked homes and businesses since 2006 with five full-time people, at roughly $580,000 of revenue a head. The first thing to check is the split between the recurring plans and the one-time wildlife jobs, since plans at those prices would need thousands of accounts behind five people, so the big cleanup tickets are probably carrying most of this. The second is how much of that attic work the crew does itself, because tearing out and replacing insulation is a different trade, and a subcontracted line inside a $6,000 ticket is somebody else's margin. The third is how much of the book comes from businesses rather than homes, since expanding that side is the growth opportunity. None of that changes the shape of the business, though: the whole thing runs out of 900 leased square feet, so a buyer adding capacity here is buying a truck and a trained technician instead of a second building.

5/ Medical Spa

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $4,150,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,193,980
📊 Revenue: $2,014,491
📅 Established: 2009

💭 My 2 Cents: Injectables carry recurring revenue built into the biology: a cosmetic Botox result fades at three to four months, so maintaining it means coming back three times a year. This South Florida practice has run on that repeat business from the same 1,400 square feet since 2009, and in 2021 it stopped taking general new patients. Referrals alone have brought in about 15 a month since, out of a file of nearly 7,000 records, and the schedule filled every week of 2025 on $266 of advertising, with no membership program, no online booking and no email recall behind it. The owner-physician is open to a six to twelve month transition and the staff say they'll stay. I'd start with what rent, if any, these earnings carry, since the sellers own the building through a separate company offering a market lease. I'd also want to know how many of those 7,000 records have been in within two years. Then how many injectors are on staff, since that is the real capacity here. The good news is Florida does not require the owner of a practice like this to be a doctor, and an off-site physician can supervise a nurse practitioner as long as they are board certified or board eligible in dermatology or plastic surgery. The fifth treatment room sits furnished and unused, so growing this practice does not start with spending money, it starts with deciding to take new patients again.

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