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👇 In Today’s Issue:
#1: Tattoo and Body Art Supply Distributor in AZ with Proprietary Branded Product Line and $559K EBITDA
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1/ Wholesale Tattoo and Body Art Supply Distributor
📍 Location: Arizona
💰 Asking Price: $2,300,000
💼 EBITDA: $558,906
📊 Revenue: $2,870,507
📅 Established: 2010
💭 My 2 Cents: Tattoo artists are creatures of habit when it comes to supplies. Once they find ink, needles, and cartridges they trust, they reorder on a predictable cycle and don't switch distributors when consistency and speed matter more than saving a few dollars. This company has spent 16 years becoming that default supplier, with a proprietary branded product line that is well recognized within the niche and a distribution operation covering national shipping and local delivery out of a 10,000-plus square foot warehouse with just four employees. The purchasing pattern here tracks the number of working artists rather than consumer spending cycles, and with body art continuing to push into the mainstream, that base keeps expanding. Inventory of roughly $463,000 is included in the asking price, but you’ll want to know if it's actually moving stock and not slow SKUs you'll write down. The lease runs only through late 2029, which is shorter than the ~10-year term an SBA lender typically requires and will need to be sorted out (this often turns into a sticky point). I'd also want to understand the revenue split between proprietary and third-party products, since the proprietary line is the more defensible, higher-value piece and third-party resale is far easier to compete away. A buyer who expands the proprietary catalog into adjacent consumables like aftercare products or piercing supplies would be adding to an already captive purchasing cycle without needing a single new customer.
2/ Commercial Floor Care and Flooring Sales Operation
📍 Location: Maryland
💰 Asking Price: $1,499,000
💼 EBITDA: $483,000
📊 Revenue: $1,402,616
📅 Established: 2001
💭 My 2 Cents: Commercial floor maintenance in regulated environments is the kind of work where the vendor gets vetted once and then keeps the contract for years, because the facility manager's job is on the line if the floors look bad during an inspection. This company's client roster runs through government facilities, casinos, and healthcare organizations, which are exactly the types of accounts that sign agreements, pay on time, and don't price-shop every quarter. Over a third of the business sits in recurring service agreements, with the rest spread across flooring installations, direct sales, and specialized cleaning. The operating model runs entirely on subcontractors for the cleaning side, which keeps fixed overhead low and lets the business scale for new contracts without proportional headcount growth. The seller is also offering up to 20% seller financing for the right buyer, which tells me there's confidence the business will perform post-close. One thing to watch, though. I'd want to understand the average contract length and renewal rate on the institutional accounts, how deep and exclusive the subcontractor bench is, and what the process looks like for winning new government or healthcare bids. After 25 years, the vendor relationships with these procurement departments are the real barrier to entry, because those buyers don't onboard new providers on a whim.
3/ Electrical Contractor
📍 Location: New York
💰 Asking Price: $3,300,000
💼 EBITDA: $731,482
📊 Revenue: $2,074,597
📅 Established: 1984
💭 My 2 Cents: This Hudson Valley electrical contractor has spent 42 years becoming the electrician GCs call when the job has to be right, built almost entirely on referrals and repeat work. An 8-person team includes experienced foremen who manage job sites independently, while the owner handles estimating, project management, and GC relationships. The seller is retiring after four decades and offering a full 6-month transition to ensure continuity with customers, employees, and active projects. The company operates from an 8,000 square foot facility on a major highway with room for fleet vehicles and equipment storage. I'd want to understand whether the estimating runs on a system (software, historical job-cost data, standardized labor units) or is it based on the owner's gut from decades of doing it, if the owner is willing to stay on as the qualifying license-holder (or if there is already a qualifying employee on staff), and what the current backlog looks like measured in months of committed work. EV charging infrastructure, whole-home generator installs, and residential electrification are all expanding fast in suburban markets, and a buyer who adds those capabilities would be opening an entirely new revenue stream without needing a single new trade relationship.
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
How many of you have spent over a decade building someone else's company and stopped caring about what you were building?
Chelsea spent 12 years at Boeing and Amazon in supplier management and finance. She walked away to find something that was actually hers, spent a year searching on her own, and nothing closed.
That's when she joined SMB Deal Hunter Pro. Our team brought her an off-market pet food business doing $3 million in revenue that had never been listed.
The seller wanted $400K more than Chelsea could justify. We helped her structure a deal that only pays the gap if sales recover.
Then the seller's son shut the whole thing down. Chelsea chased other deals for 9 months. Nothing stuck. She was about to go back to corporate when she sent the original seller a Hail Mary offer, and he took it.
Today she owns two retail stores, a manufacturing facility, and a growing delivery channel with 10% down. Each location has a manager running the day-to-day while she focuses on growth.
Four months in: "I go home crying happy tears, and I've never cried happy tears in my life."
4/ Liquor Store with Drive-Thru
📍 Location: Arizona
💰 Asking Price: $2,250,000
💼 EBITDA: $423,072
📊 Revenue: $2,111,136
📅 Established: 1984
💭 My 2 Cents: Off-premise liquor retail is one of the few categories that actually benefits when the economy softens, because consumers trade down from bars and restaurants to buying at the store, which pushes volume to exactly this type of operation. This location has been running since 1984 near a major freeway corridor and holds a transferable #09 license that can command close to $1 million on its own. Because the state limits how many of these licenses exist, the scarcity is a durable, regulation-driven moat. The drive-thru creates a daily habit loop with commuters who stop on the way home, driving repeat traffic that a walk-in-only competitor cannot match. What stands out operationally is the lease, which runs through the end of 2041. That's 15-plus years of locked-in occupancy at roughly $4,200 per month, which gives a buyer protection against the rent increases that eat into margins at competing locations. Inventory of roughly $350,000 is sold separately, so a buyer should factor that into the total capital outlay. I'd want to understand the inventory breakdown by category and sell-through rate, and the competitive density within a 3-mile radius. At 5.3x EBITDA the multiple looks rich for the category, but strip out the ~$1M license and the operating business is reasonable at around 3x. The catch is that SBA financing is built for cash flow, not license value, so this likely needs meaningful seller financing or buyer equity to bridge the gap between what the bank will lend and the asking price.
5/ Diversified Industrial Services Contractor
📍 Location: Indiana
💰 Asking Price: $3,395,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,000,000
📊 Revenue: $7,000,000
📅 Established: 2010
💭 My 2 Cents: When a foundry's equipment fails at 2 a.m. or a distribution center needs structural repairs before the next shift, the facility manager calls whoever picks up the phone and shows up. That 24/7 emergency response capability is the core of this business and the reason most general contractors bidding on scheduled work are not real competitors here. The company operates across four service divisions with 35 full-time employees, covering manufacturing plants, foundries, scrap processors, and distribution centers throughout the region. The seller owns the real estate and is willing to sell at market value, and seller financing is also available, so a buyer has flexibility on deal structure. The business grew 32% year over year in 2025, and the seller notes that one service division alone could double with additional staffing. I'd want to understand how much of the work is covered by formal service agreements versus called in on a transactional basis, what the skilled labor pipeline looks like given how tight the industrial trades market is right now, and which specific division has the capacity to double and what staffing would cost to get there. Reshoring is pushing manufacturing back to the Midwest, and that tailwind has years left to run, but only if the crew bench can keep pace with the call volume.
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RECENT PODCAST EPISODE
Robert spent three years in fixed income sales at a regional bank in Texas, then went to Carnegie Mellon for his MBA. He turned down his job offer the day after graduation.
He asked his wife for 24 months to find a deal. They'd live on her salary. If it didn't work, he'd go get a job.
18 months later, he closed on a $7.3 million home health franchise in Wisconsin with an SBA pari passu loan, a 10% seller note, and family equity.
Year one, he grew revenue 16% to an all-time high. Then he fired his entire inherited office staff over compliance issues and spent Christmas week doing 16 back-to-back interviews to rebuild from scratch.
Today the business does over $100K a week. He takes the 6:10 a.m. Amtrak from Chicago to Milwaukee three days a week. His goal is $10 million.
When we asked for his advice, he said trust your gut, have some humility, and don't take yourself too seriously. Your people don't care where you went to school.
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