New Deals: An absentee-run commercial cleaning company, special needs school bus transportation company, and 3 other finds

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1/ Absentee-Run Commercial Cleaning Company

📍 Location: Boston, MA
💰 Asking Price: $2,000,000
💼 EBITDA: $500,000
📊 Revenue: $2,020,000
📅 Established: 2010

💭 My 2 Cents: Buyers often underestimate commercial cleaning because the service looks simple on the surface. But the barrier to entry isn't the work, it's the relationships. A book of 120+ accounts across retail, condos, schools, and dealerships represents years of trust that a new competitor can't shortcut. The current operator has built systems robust enough that the business largely runs itself, and what really jumped out at me is that staff retention is outstanding (average 10+ year tenure), which means relationships are deep and institutional knowledge is baked in rather than sitting in the owner's head. On top of that, their 25% EBITDA margins are solid for commercial cleaning, and the diverse account mix across multiple sectors should reduce cyclical risk. I'd want to understand what the contract renewal cycle looks like, the churn rate on the accounts, and if any of the retail or condo clients are on month-to-month versus multi-year terms. If you're looking for a business that generates real income without demanding your daily attention, this is as close as it gets.

2/ Special Needs School Bus Transportation Company

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $4,000,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,500,000
📊 Revenue: $3,200,000
📅 Established: 1993

💭 My 2 Cents: Special needs transportation is a niche essential service that generates recurring contracts with school districts and municipalities. This business's 47% margin is exceptional and tells me routes are dense and well-optimized, though the capital intensity is worth watching: school buses aren't cheap, especially ADA-equipped ones, so I'd want to understand fleet age, upcoming replacement cycles, and whether those margins hold after you account for deferred maintenance capex. The fact that drivers work just 4.5 hours daily is actually a retention advantage in a market where driver recruitment is a constant pain point, and that part-time structure creates a natural growth lever: adding medical transportation fills the other half of each shift and opens expansion beyond current county lines. I'd also dig into the contract renewal cycle with school districts and how exposed the revenue base is to shifts in state special education funding. Ultimately, 33 years of established routes means deep institutional relationships that are genuinely hard to displace.

3/ Marble Company

📍 Location: Connecticut
💰 Asking Price: $3,500,000
💼 EBITDA: $800,000
📊 Revenue: $5,000,000
📅 Established: 100+ years ago

💭 My 2 Cents: This century-old marble company with award-winning craftsmanship, a 20,000 square foot facility, showroom, and key employees with 15-30 years tenure is sitting on dormant growth. The owner literally turns down work, which tells me demand isn't the problem. The question is whether they're turning down the right work. I like their vertical integration of manufacturing and installation (a moat most competitors lack) and their high-end clientele which generates natural repeat and referral business, but I'd want to understand how much of their pipeline comes through B2B referrals versus one-off clients. The 16% net margin is actually strong for marble fabrication, where most shops land between 8% and 15%, which validates their pricing power and operational efficiency with high-end projects. For someone who respects craftsmanship and understands the high-end renovation market in the Northeast, the path forward is systematizing those B2B relationships with architects, designers, and general contractors, introducing complementary product lines like exterior stone, and being deliberate about which projects to take on. That's how you grow revenue and margins simultaneously without adding overhead.

4/ Industrial Distributor (Waste & Recycling Components)

📍 Location: New Jersey
💰 Asking Price: $14,400,000
💼 EBITDA: $3,039,904
📊 Revenue: $13,248,975
📅 Established: 2004

💭 My 2 Cents: Consumable wear components for solid waste and recycling equipment are non-discretionary replacement parts: when something breaks on a garbage truck, you need the part immediately. That makes this business both countercyclical and mission-critical, which is a rare combination. I like that they have two complementary divisions with cross-selling opportunities and that no single customer exceeds 8% of revenue, which means the revenue base is diversified enough that losing any one account won't move the needle. Their 23% EBITDA margins are impressive for a distributor, and even more so when you consider they're running this with just four full-time employees, which tells me the operation is lean and the value is in the relationships and supply chain positioning rather than headcount. EBITDA has nearly doubled in three years, which is the number I'd pressure test hardest: what's driving it (volume, pricing, product mix?), and is it sustainable or tied to one-time factors like pandemic-era pricing or a temporary supply gap? If that growth is organic and repeatable, this is a compelling opportunity, and the seller's willingness to stay on for one to three years significantly reduces transition risk.

5/ Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Company with Real Estate

📍 Location: California
💰 Asking Price: $7,000,000 (inc. real estate)
💼 EBITDA: $1,587,678
📊 Revenue: $4,530,686
📅 Established: N/A

💭 My 2 Cents: NEMT is one of the clearest demand stories in small business acquisitions right now: an aging population, regulatory tailwinds pushing non-emergency transport out of hospital systems, and chronic underinvestment in the space. This Inland Empire operation has the fundamentals to capitalize on that demand. Keeping operations within a 50-mile radius creates density advantages for routing and driver utilization that larger, more dispersed operators struggle to match, and that discipline shows in their margins. The real estate component ($2.5M for land and building) is what separates this deal from most NEMT opportunities: you get hard asset backing that de-risks the investment and gives you optionality down the road. The total ask of $7M feels elevated at first glance, but strip out the real estate and the business prices closer to 2.8x, which is reasonable for this space. I'd want to understand what percentage of revenue comes from recurring appointment transportation versus one-off trips, how concentrated the payer mix is across managed care contracts and Medi-Cal reimbursement rates, and what happens to those rates if the state tightens eligibility or reimbursement schedules. If the recurring revenue is strong and the payer mix is diversified, the combination of a well-maintained fleet, clean books qualifying for SBA lending, and real estate ownership makes this one of the more complete NEMT packages I've seen.