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New Deals: A semi-absentee indoor family entertainment center, home healthcare business, and 3 other finds.
Plus, Michael went under LOI on a raw pet food company
Hello SMB Deal Hunters!
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…
🔥 Community Top Picks from the Last Market Watch Issue:
#1: Commercial Electrical Contractor with $820K EBITDA
#2: Commercial HVAC Service Company with $461K EBITDA
#3: Chimney and Fireplace Service Company with $609K EBITDA
Today’s issue is sponsored by SMB Deal Hunter Pro, our accelerator that helps business buyers find, finance, and acquire a million-dollar cash-flowing business in 6–12 months.
COMMUNITY WINS
Here’s what one SMB Deal Hunter Pro member shared this past week:

💡 Michael didn't do this alone.
We helped him source this opportunity and worked with him 1:1 to catch red flags and structure a winning offer. Next, we’re helping him secure financing and navigate due diligence and negotiations.
We're now in the 60-day window after Tax Day. Right now, thousands of business owners are staring at their returns and doing the retirement math for the first time. Every year, this stretch produces a wave of new listings from owners who are finally ready to sell.
The best deals won't sit on the market long.
So if you've been waiting for the right time to make a move....
NEW DEALS
These deals span the country. For custom-sourced deals in your area, click here.
1/ Managed IT Services and Cybersecurity Business
📍 Location: Arizona
💰 Asking Price: $1,925,000
💼 EBITDA: $787,492
📊 Revenue: $3,038,452
📅 Established: 2015
💭 My 2 Cents: Most managed IT providers are built from scratch. The owner writes the SOPs, sets the pricing, figures out the tech stack, and hopes it holds together as they scale. This one runs through a nationally recognized franchise system with operational playbooks and scalable infrastructure already built, which means a buyer doesn't need to build the business model from scratch. The client base is diversified with no concentration risk, and each client sits across multiple service touchpoints (managed IT, cloud, cybersecurity, backup, consulting), so the switching cost is real. What I'd want to dig into is the franchise royalty structure and whether it caps how much margin a new owner can actually extract, because that royalty is the trade-off for the playbook. I'd also want to see the monthly recurring revenue split versus project-based consulting work, since that ratio determines how predictable the cash flow actually is. Plus, cybersecurity is the fastest-growing line in managed services, and I'd want to understand whether this company is actively winning security-specific contracts or just bundling basic protection into broader IT packages. A buyer with a sales background could push hard into medical, legal, and financial verticals where compliance requirements make outsourced IT non-optional.
2/ Home Healthcare Business
📍 Location: Missouri
💰 Asking Price: $1,800,000
💼 EBITDA: $746,860
📊 Revenue: $1,667,779
📅 Established: N/A
💭 My 2 Cents: Home healthcare sits on a real demographic tailwind. The 65+ population is growing faster than the labor pool that serves it, and aging-in-place preference means demand flows to home-based care rather than facilities. This operation with an established client base has witness significant growth and financial improvement over recent years. That growth trajectory matters because revenue here is inherently recurring (patients need ongoing weekly care hours) and per-client revenue tends to increase over time as health needs escalate. The seller is relocating out of state, which reads as a clean motivation for selling rather than a problem the next owner will inherit. That said, I'd want to understand how many active patients the company serves, whether revenue is primarily private pay or tied to Medicaid waiver contracts (which carry reimbursement rate risk outside the owner's control), and how caregiver recruitment looks in a market where every agency is pulling from the same labor pool. Note: The margin here runs well above industry norms for home healthcare, which likely points to some combination of owner-absorbed labor (scheduling, on-call, case management) and below-market caregiver wages that a new owner will have to rebuild.
3/ Semi-Absentee Indoor Family Entertainment Center
📍 Location: Tennessee
💰 Asking Price: $1,950,000
💼 EBITDA: $634,977
📊 Revenue: $1,731,120
📅 Established: N/A
💭 My 2 Cents: What caught my attention with this indoor family entertainment center is the 60 to 65% repeat visit rate, which tells me this venue has become part of families' routines rather than a one-time novelty. In the Middle Tennessee market, where young families have been moving steadily for years, that repeat behavior creates a revenue base that renews itself without heavy marketing spend. The membership component adds predictability on top of the walk-in traffic, and thousands of individual transactions means no single booking or account moves the needle. On top of that, the current owners spend about two hours per week on-site, with a manager and staff running everything else. That said, I'd want to understand the lease terms, because a venue-based business lives and dies by its location. I'd also want to see the equipment refresh history, because play structures and party rooms take real wear from kids, and deferred replacement flatters the numbers until a buyer writes the check. The seasonal pattern matters too, as indoor entertainment typically softens in summer when families shift outdoors (but Middle Tennessee summers hit 90°+ with high humidity, which can push families indoors). A buyer closing in late spring should plan for the dip before fall group bookings and holiday party season pick back up.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
How many of you are in a job where you're never really off?
You've got the title. You've got the paycheck. But you're checking Slack on weekends and taking calls at dinner. And the only way it stops is if you stop.
Taabish spent 10+ years at Amazon in operations, leading teams across the country. When his oldest started approaching high school, he looked at his schedule and realized he'd never been fully present. The job ran 24/7. He wanted his time back.
He spent 6+ months browsing deals on his own, thinking about it, but not knowing where to start.
That's when he joined SMB Deal Hunter Pro. Five months in, he landed his first LOI. It fell apart. Then a second LOI. That one fell apart too.
The third one stuck. 11 months after joining, he closed on a $2.9M industrial equipment business cash flowing over $900K/year. A 50-year-old company distributing blowers, pumps, and gearboxes with a full machine shop, service operation, and team already in place. He had zero experience in the industry.
In his first three months, revenue is already ahead of last year. He's signed on as a dealer for a product line the previous owner never touched. And his business is closed every Saturday and Sunday.
For the first time in a decade, he can actually unplug.
4/ Towing and Roadside Assistance Company
📍 Location: Northern California
💰 Asking Price: $1,395,000
💼 EBITDA: $554,402
📊 Revenue: $2,090,317
📅 Established: N/A
💭 My 2 Cents: Long-standing contractual relationships with local public agencies and major organizations are what separate this operation from the average tow truck operation. Those contracts create a call volume floor that shows up whether the company markets or not, and they took years of licensing, performance history, and relationship building to earn. This operation covers heavy-duty towing alongside standard light-duty, which matters because heavy calls command significantly higher per-call revenue, so the split between heavy and light is the first thing I'd want to see. I like the experienced full-time team and structured dispatch already in place. That said, I'd want to understand how the agency contracts are structured, specifically term lengths, renewal conditions, and whether they're tied to a geographic zone. I'd also want to see the fleet age and upcoming replacement schedule, because tow trucks are expensive to replace and deferred maintenance shows up fast in downtime and lost calls. At 2.5x the price looks attractive, but if the fleet needs $300K in replacements over the next two years, the effective buy-in climbs to 3.1x, and that changes the math.
5/ Multi-Location Audiology Practice
📍 Location: Pennsylvania
💰 Asking Price: $1,400,000
💼 EBITDA: $436,450
📊 Revenue: $1,139,998
📅 Established: 2001
💭 My 2 Cents: The owners of this audiology practice currently perform less than 15% of total fittings, and the lead audiologist (44 years of experience) is committed to staying post-sale. That combination is rare in healthcare acquisitions because it means the clinical operation doesn't depend on the seller walking out. What differentiates this practice, however, is the home visit component that deepens the patient relationship well beyond the office (and most of their audiology competitors simply don't offer it). I'd want to understand the revenue split between device sales and ongoing service plans, because device margins depend on manufacturer pricing and reimbursement trends that the practice can't control. I'd also want to know how strong the referral pipeline is from local physicians and ENT offices, and whether Medicare reimbursement rates for audiology have been trending up or down over the past three years, because that sets the ceiling on per-patient revenue. The over-the-counter hearing aid market has been expanding since the FDA opened it up in 2022, pulling price-sensitive patients toward retail. But every patient fitted here enters a multi-year relationship of adjustments, upgrades, and annual check-ups, and that annuity stream is the part retail can't touch.
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RECENT PODCAST EPISODE
Jake Bittner spent over a decade in government data analytics at MicroStrategy, Informatica, and SAP. Then he bought a money-losing business with 7 employees, 3 contracts, and 100% seller financing.
The first two years were survival mode. He and his partner cut their own salaries and chased anything that moved. By year three, they were profitable but stuck. Growth targets of 30-40%. Actual results: 5% or flat.
Then they found the real problem: 54% customer retention. They studied their longest-tenured clients, figured out what made them stick, and stopped chasing everything else. Retention climbed to 95%. Growth hit 35-40%.
By the end, Jake was leaving at 5:30pm every day for Orange Theory while his team ran the business without him.
He sold for $35 million. An 11x multiple.
When we asked for his best advice, he didn't talk about deals or multiples. He said: put your oxygen mask on first.
And for our audio-only listeners, jump in and listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!
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