New Deals: A self-serve car wash, fully absentee salvage yard, and 3 other finds...

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📍 Location: Maryland
💰 Asking Price: $1,400,000
💼 EBITDA: $462,000
📊 Revenue: $759,000
📅 Established: 2004

💭 My 2 Cents: Self-serve car washes are one of the few businesses where the customer does most of the work for you, and this 22-year-old operation takes that a step further with just one full-time employee running the whole thing. The seller recently installed two new in-bay automatic wash systems and renovated the self-serve bays with energy-efficient equipment, so the heavy capex is already behind you and a buyer walks into a freshly upgraded facility with revenue trending up and 2026 on pace to outperform prior years. The real estate is valued separately at $2.1 million on 1-plus acres, and in the car wash business, the site is the moat. Zoning and permitting for new construction keeps getting tighter, and the seller notes limited competition of similar caliber in the area. I'd want to understand water and sewer costs as a percentage of revenue, what the actual competitive density looks like within a few miles, and whether the in-bay automatics are generating any membership revenue on top of transactional washes. If there's no membership program yet, that's the clearest growth lever a new owner has on day one.

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $1,750,000
💼 EBITDA: $583,597
📊 Revenue: $2,831,615
📅 Established: 2008

💭 My 2 Cents: People wreck cars every day, and as long as vehicles stay on the road, the supply of salvageable inventory renews itself. This yard pulls in 15 to 20 vehicles per day, strips them for engines, transmissions, body parts, catalytic converters, rims, and scrap metal. Recycled auto parts sell for 50 to 70 percent less than new OEM equivalents, which means repair shops and body shops keep coming back because the economics are too good to pass up. What makes this business interesting operationally is that a large portion of inventory is pre-sold to established bulk buyers before it even hits the shelf, so the cash conversion cycle is fast and working capital requirements stay manageable. The business also runs fully absentee with a key employee and full staff handling everything from towing to dismantling to sales. It sits on 8 acres in an area with 30,000 daily traffic count, and the real estate is available separately at $3.5 million. I'd want to dig into the environmental compliance history and open remediation liabilities, the breakdown between retail and wholesale/scrap revenue, and whether the yard has moved inventory online through platforms like eBay Motors. One important note: this deal will not qualify for SBA lending. Auto salvage yards are categorically ineligible regardless of how the financials look, so a buyer needs to come in with cash, negotiate seller financing, or get creative with a combination of both.

📍 Location: Minnesota
💰 Asking Price: $1,800,000
💼 EBITDA: $755,314
📊 Revenue: $2,511,889
📅 Established: 1991

💭 My 2 Cents: The whole access control industry is in the middle of a massive upgrade cycle as buildings move from physical keys to biometric and mobile credential systems. This company has operated for 35 years in access control, electrified locking, and master key systems in one of the country's most commercially active metros. Real estate is included, which is a nice bonus since warehouse and bench space in metro markets keeps getting more expensive. What caught my attention is that the seller describes "tons of sales avenues" that haven't been pursued. That tells me the current owner (who's retiring) has been coasting on reputation rather than actively selling, which is exactly the kind of deal a buyer with strong sales instincts wants to find. I'd want to understand the revenue split between one-time hardware installations and recurring service or maintenance contracts, how concentrated the customer base is across commercial versus government versus institutional accounts, and whether the business holds any exclusive dealership agreements with major lock manufacturers. Access control isn't a nice-to-have anymore. Regulatory pressure and insurance requirements are forcing upgrades across every commercial category.

📍 Location: Ohio
💰 Asking Price: $2,250,000
💼 EBITDA: $564,102
📊 Revenue: $4,714,667
📅 Established: 1970

💭 My 2 Cents: Reshoring and nearshoring have put domestic manufacturers under pressure to modernize production lines, and custom equipment fabricators are the ones getting the calls. Most fabrication shops are commodity job shops competing on price. This one on the other hand designs, builds, and then services custom industrial production equipment for OEM customers, so every machine it places in the field creates a long tail of parts, rebuilds, and field service revenue for the life of that equipment. What's impressive is the management team averages 15-plus years of tenure across 20-plus employees, and employee turnover is virtually zero. I also like that no single customer accounts for more than 8% of revenue and that the 40,000 square foot facility has room to grow without a capital-intensive move. That said, I'd want to understand the owner's day-to-day role in engineering and quoting, how much of the work comes from recurring service and rebuild contracts versus new machine builds, and what the project backlog looks like heading into the next 12 months. A buyer who can step into the quoting side or hire for it inherits a business where the team, the customers, and the facility are all already in place and not going anywhere.

📍 Location: Texas
💰 Asking Price: $1,300,602
💼 EBITDA: $648,787
📊 Revenue: $2,413,521
📅 Established: 2001

💭 My 2 Cents: 70% of the customer base here is commercial landscapers, builders, and property managers ordering bulk materials on a regular cycle. That kind of repeat demand took 25 years to build, and it's the reason this deal is worth a close look. The business went through a soft patch, likely a combination of construction slowdowns and the kind of operational drift that happens when a long-tenured owner stops investing in systems. The seller describes the operation as running on "only basic systems and processes," no CRM, no online ordering, nothing fancy. And the commercial accounts still came back every week. First quarter 2026 is already up 9% year over year with improved margins from tighter purchasing, which tells me the business has already turned the corner without a new owner even touching it yet. Two related real estate parcels are available at $2.2 million to $3.5 million, and a buyer who picks those up alongside the business eliminates lease risk entirely. I'd want to understand the supplier concentration on the bulk materials side, what the delivery fleet and radius look like, and how seasonal the cash flow gets between spring and winter. At 2x, you're paying for a business that softened, not one that broke. The hardest part of distribution is the relationships and the facility, and both come with the deal.