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1/ Specialty Lifting Equipment Rental for Glass and Construction
📍 Location: Arizona
💰 Asking Price: $1,225,000
💼 EBITDA: $555,168
📊 Revenue: $1,173,339
📅 Established: N/A
💭 My 2 Cents: When a glazing crew needs a specialized lifter to move glass panels or stone slabs on a jobsite, general rental houses don't stock it. This company stocks a purpose-built lifting fleet for glass, glazing, stone, slab, and construction material-handling jobs across multiple western U.S. markets, and all equipment transfers free and clear of liens at closing. The entire operation runs on a lean 1099 contractor model, with a part-time shop manager in Phoenix, leased storage and delivery coverage in Southern California, and a remote sales and logistics operator who handles roughly 80% of the business. The owner has already reduced involvement in 2026 ahead of retirement, and seller financing is available. That contractor-based structure keeps payroll costs near zero, but contractor agreements carry less retention weight than employment contracts. I'd want to understand whether the 80% sales operator has committed to staying post-close (because if that person leaves, the revenue walks with them), what the fleet age and replacement cost looks like for each unit, and what monthly utilization rates have averaged over the past two years. A buyer who builds preferred-vendor relationships with glazing and curtainwall contractors (standard in the space) could lock in predictable rental volume that the current part-time owner never pursued.
2/ Medicare-Certified Hospice Agency
📍 Location: Texas
💰 Asking Price: $3,200,000
💼 EBITDA: $900,000
📊 Revenue: $3,500,000
📅 Established: 2020
💭 My 2 Cents: Acquiring a Medicare and Medicaid-certified hospice agency is almost always faster than building one from scratch, because the certification process takes years of regulatory work, survey compliance, and operational buildout. 30 full-time employees are already delivering clinical care across nursing, aide, social work, and administration, meaning this is not a license being assembled by a solo owner. That matters in the Greater Houston market where the 65-plus population is projected to grow 260% by 2050. Revenue is government-reimbursed on a per-patient-per-day basis, so cash flow follows patient census rather than sales activity. I'd want to understand the current patient census and how the average daily census has trended over the past 12 months, the split between Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay reimbursement, and referral source concentration from hospital discharge planners and social workers. Medicare's aggregate reimbursement cap is the diligence item most buyers miss. If this agency is operating near or over that threshold, the repayment obligation transfers to the buyer at close and won't appear anywhere on the P&L.
3/ Towing Company and Roadside Service
📍 Location: Missouri
💰 Asking Price: $3,500,000
💼 EBITDA: $812,588
📊 Revenue: $1,769,600
📅 Established: ~1986
💭 My 2 Cents: A 140% revenue increase over three years is the kind of growth that either tells a great story or hides a question, and in towing the answer usually comes down to whether the company won new contracts or simply raised rates. This 40-year operation runs a modern, near-new fleet across towing, mobile roadside service, and truck repair, with $1.8 million in fleet and equipment included in the deal, which is the bulk of what a buyer is actually paying for. The company also owns its 12,500 square foot facility outright with zero rent expense, and the real estate is available as a separate purchase. I'd want to understand what specifically drove the revenue growth (new motor club or municipal rotation contracts, an acquisition, or organic volume), how revenue breaks down across towing, roadside, and repair, and whether the fleet is owned free and clear or carries financing buried in the operating expenses. I'd also want to see a fleet schedule with age, mileage, and condition on each unit since near-new trucks depreciate fast and replacement cycles are expensive. The truck repair side is particularly interesting to me as it generates revenue from the same distressed-vehicle pipeline without requiring a second dispatch operation.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
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Hillary spent 15 years in B2B tech marketing, climbing from first marketing hire to CMO at one startup after another. By her third layoff, she was done building someone else's company.
She wanted to buy a business, but after months searching on her own, every book and forum left her with more questions than answers.
That's when she joined SMB Deal Hunter Pro. One month in, a children's book publishing business landed on her desk with 12 buyers in line and a same-day deadline. Our team helped her structure the offer that won.
Then diligence nearly killed it. Financial and legal issues kept threatening to blow the deal up, but our advisors walked her through every hurdle until close.
When she bought it, the business was 100% Amazon. 18 months later, her books are now sold nationwide in Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and Target. Top-line revenue is on track to nearly double.
Her husband quit his corporate job to join her full-time. They had surprise identical twins, going from two kids to four. As she puts it: "If we had not bought this business, I don't think we would have the twins."
4/ Residential HVAC and Plumbing Service Company
📍 Location: Nevada
💰 Asking Price: $1,200,000
💼 EBITDA: $500,000
📊 Revenue: $2,000,000
📅 Established: 2022
💭 My 2 Cents: Building a database of 7,000-plus active residential customers in just four years tells me this HVAC and plumbing company has cracked lead generation and customer acquisition. The operation runs 10 fully wrapped service vans and 3 equipped trailers out of a centrally located facility near the Las Vegas airport, with 6 full-time employees covering the entire valley. Year-round demand in Las Vegas is real: summer temperatures push HVAC systems to their limit for months, and winter lows in the 30s keep the plumbing and heating calls coming. What stands out is 600-plus Google reviews at a 4.8 rating, which is the kind of organic social proof that takes years to accumulate. The seller has also documented a full operations manual designed for remote management, so the business was built to function without the owner on every call. Since this is a franchisee location, I'd want to understand the franchise transfer terms (fees, royalty structure, territory protections, and whether the franchisor has approval rights over the sale), how much of the 7,000-customer database represents truly active accounts versus one-time callers, and what the revenue split looks like between HVAC and plumbing. A buyer who pushes maintenance agreements on the existing customer base could build a recurring revenue stream the current owner never formalized.
5/ ISO Certified CNC Machining Shop
📍 Location: North Carolina
💰 Asking Price: $2,500,000
💼 EBITDA: $590,000
📊 Revenue: $1,986,000
📅 Established: 1990
💭 My 2 Cents: This shop has nearly doubled volume with its top four customers over the past three years, which tells me the growth is coming from wallet share expansion with existing accounts rather than chasing new work. ISO certification opens the door to buyers who require certified suppliers and won't even quote a shop that doesn't carry it, and this company has held that credential for 36 years. The team is 6 full-time employees, and the sale includes $750,000 in CNC machinery and equipment plus finished goods stock inventory for repeat orders, a signal that the customer relationships are predictable enough to justify holding inventory on spec. A 9,600 square foot facility with an adjacent cleared expansion lot is available separately. The sale is health-driven and the seller prefers a cash deal with a quick close, which means a buyer with capital ready to deploy has real negotiating leverage that a standard retirement listing wouldn't offer. I'd want to understand how concentrated revenue is across those top four customers and the end markets (automotive, aerospace, defense, etc.), what the machine age and replacement cycle looks like, and whether the ISO quality systems and documentation are robust enough to survive an ownership change without a gap in compliance.
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RECENT PODCAST EPISODE
Paul spent 2.5 years in public accounting, then nearly a decade in corporate finance through the 90s telecom boom.
When his wife got pregnant with their second child, he left corporate to buy a business so she could stay home.
That meant selling the Lexus, downsizing from a $450K to $220K house, and betting $45K down on a flooring shop he knew nothing about.
He's already bought 12 businesses over the last 25 years
And the better his businesses got, the less he wanted to sell them. The reason flips how most buyers think about their exit.
One of them could sell to PE for up to $18M, but his strategy is the exact reason he holds on to all of his cash cows.
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