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📍 Location: Oregon
💰 Asking Price: $7,750,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,101,521
📊 Revenue: $2,749,413
📅 Established: 2015

💭 My 2 Cents: The reason you keep hearing about people buying laundromats is the customer. Roughly 60% of the people using them are renters, and a renter with no hookup in the apartment cannot solve the problem by buying a machine. That is what people mean when they call this category recession resistant: it kept adding stores through 2020 while the rest of retail was closing. This portfolio has run since 2015, holds close to 75% of its largest market and around half of a second one, and is the only local operator handling both wash-and-fold and commercial accounts. Staffing runs 30 people across the six stores, 28 of them part-time, with a management team already in place, and three commercial buildings come with the sale. A laundromat is plumbing sunk into a slab, which means it cannot be moved when a lease ends, so the first thing I'd sort out is which of the six stores sit inside those three buildings and what is left on the leases for the rest. I'd also want the revenue split across self-service, wash-and-fold, and commercial accounts, since the labor behind a pound of wash-and-fold is the largest cost in that line and the coin side barely has any. Equipment age across all six stores is worth counting too, because that tells you how much of the next few years' cash flow goes back into machines. The commercial book is the one part of this that isn't bolted to a floor, which makes it the piece a buyer can grow without buying another building.

📍 Location: New York
💰 Asking Price: $5,000,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,101,583
📊 Revenue: $4,981,987
📅 Established: N/A

💭 My 2 Cents: A group reformer class needs a certified instructor standing in front of ten machines, and comprehensive certification runs about 450 hours and takes most people close to a year while they work another job. As a result, some studios have delayed openings because they could not staff the reformers. This one got around that by running its own teacher training program, so it graduates the people it hires. It has roughly 1,300 members paying about $260,000 a month on contract, or around $200 a head, with class packs, private sessions, and the training program on top. It runs its studios under one brand rather than a franchise banner, rent across them comes to $41,000 a month, and a management team runs the studios with the owner in an oversight role. Revenue by studio with the date each one opened is where I'd start, since a site that opened last year and a site that opened five years ago sit at very different points on the ramp. I'd want to know how many of the current instructors came through the in-house training rather than being hired in, because that is what tells you the pipeline works. Then I'd ask how long the average member has been paying, since a renewal history tells you more than a notice period does. The scarce input in this business is a certified instructor, and a studio that trains its own is manufacturing the thing every other studio is competing to hire.

📍 Location: Alabama
💰 Asking Price: $1,400,000
💼 EBITDA: $419,456
📊 Revenue: $1,158,731
📅 Established: N/A

💭 My 2 Cents: Water damage runs on a clock. A soaked building can start growing mold within a couple of days, so insurance carriers and their vendor networks score restoration contractors on how fast they answer the phone and get a truck on site, and a tight local dispatch can often out-respond a big name on that measure. This company does the drying, the mold work, and the fire and smoke work, and it also cleans carpet, rugs, hardwood, tile, and upholstery for homes and businesses, so its 11 people have booked work between losses. The owner is down to under 15 hours a week with managers running the day to day. The sale includes $420,000 of equipment, which in this trade is trucks, truck-mounted extractors, air movers, and dehumidifiers. That said, I'd want to see the mix across water mitigation, mold, fire and smoke, and rebuild work, because gross margin on drying a house runs several times what it runs on putting the house back together. On the cleaning side I'd want to know whether an account is on a standing schedule that invoices every month or only calls when something happens. And since rebuild work is the one piece Alabama does regulate, I'd check whether the company holds a Home Builders Licensure Board license, which residential work over $10,000 requires and without which a contractor cannot sue to collect. A restoration contractor does not really set its own prices: it and the insurance carrier both estimate from the same regional price list, published by Verisk and updated monthly, which is why the way to win in this trade is to answer faster rather than to bid lower.

📍 Location: Pennsylvania
💰 Asking Price: $1,795,000
💼 EBITDA: $453,000
📊 Revenue: $1,100,000
📅 Established: 2016

💭 My 2 Cents: A house emptied by a crew in protective gear sounds like a rare event. However, hoarding disorder runs at roughly 2.5% of adults (about 1 in 4), and the symptoms are close to three times more common in people over 55 than in people in their late thirties. Almost every homeowners policy treats hoarding as a maintenance problem rather than a sudden loss, so a family or a landlord pays that bill directly, while trauma and biohazard scenes are incidental to an event the policy does cover and the carrier picks those up. This company does both, plus rodent and animal waste cleanup, drug remediation, and odor removal. Six technicians work in three crews, so three jobs can run at once, and they completed roughly 210 of them last year, putting the average job right around $5,000. It works under a national brand that sends leads from its call center and websites into a protected territory, and the retiring owner is still in it day to day. The payer split matters more than usual here, since collecting from a grieving family is a different business than collecting from an adjuster. Whether the company holds Pennsylvania's DEP infectious waste transporter license or subcontracts that haul is worth pinning down, because only licensed transporters can move the waste in the state. And I'd want the number of leads that call center sent into the territory last year against the 210 jobs the crews actually ran, since a large gap means the work for a fourth crew is already coming in. There is no repeat customer in this business, which is why the call center feeding the territory is a real asset.

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $4,000,000
💼 EBITDA: $826,450
📊 Revenue: $4,043,232
📅 Established: 2022

💭 My 2 Cents: Registering a car is normally a one-time errand. This company sells it as a managed process instead, forming the entity, handling the title work, filing the registration, then staying on for the renewals and compliance filings an entity needs every year to stay in good standing. It has run since 2022, has served more than 17,000 customers, and grew revenue 132% last year, with the core registration order averaging $1,049. A management team handles the day to day with the founder on strategy, supported by a 5-person sales team and round-the-clock cover. Annual customers went from 668 in 2023 to 3,045 in 2025, and importantly through this growth, the share who came back or renewed rose from 40% to 56% in a year. What’s also exciting is a recent $500 privacy add-on cleared 30% adoption in its first month. Where the customers actually live is the first thing I'd map, because a handful of states have moved in the past year from sending warning letters about out-of-state registrations to opening audits and filing criminal charges. I'd also want to understand what that 56% consists of, a renewal on an entity it still administers or a second vehicle from the same household. It's also worth confirming whether it is the registered agent of record on those entities, since that is what makes a renewal automatic rather than optional. The machinery here moves a customer from formation to titling to annual filings without them ever touching a government website, and that same machinery could run on commercial fleet work that owes nothing to how a personal vehicle is taxed.