New Deals: An absentee run luxury nail salon, waste and recycling platform, and 3 more finds...

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📍 Location: Arizona
💰 Asking Price: $2,375,000
💼 EBITDA: $680,868
📊 Revenue: $2,710,783
📅 Established: 2020

💭 My 2 Cents: Nail care has shifted from an occasional splurge to a routine grooming habit for many consumers, and the US salon market has kept growing through soft economic stretches, which blunts the usual discretionary worry. Gel needs fill-ins or removal every two to three weeks, and even basic maintenance clients cycle every six to eight, so rebooking is baked in. The seller is handing over a salon that already runs entirely absentee with a seasoned manager and trained staff handling everything day to day, so a buyer is not betting this can be made passive, it already is. It operates 22 nail stations and 18 pedicure stations in an upscale location built out to a level that supports premium pricing and a loyal client base. That said, two numbers matter most here in diligence: average ticket and service mix. Premium clients spend two to three times what basic-service clients do (on gel, enhancement, and add-on work). I'd also want to understand the rebooking rate and how much of it runs through a booking system versus walk-ins, because a pre-booked base transfers through a sale far better than walk-in volume that can follow a departing technician. The last must-have is the lease: a business this dependent on walk-in visibility is only as secure as its remaining term and renewal options.

📍 Location: Colorado
💰 Asking Price: $2,200,000
💼 EBITDA: $527,943
📊 Revenue: $1,438,776
📅 Established: 1983

💭 My 2 Cents: Forty-three years of commercial landscape maintenance has landed this company a coveted book of multi-year HOA and commercial contracts with snow removal, irrigation, aeration, and seasonal cleanups that layer in revenue on top of the base maintenance. As importantly, the tenured crew here working set routes has allowed the owner to work roughly ten hours a week from home. In an industry where labor shortages are acute and crew turnover is a persistent drag on competitors, a stable team that knows its routes is an underappreciated asset. I'd want to understand the renewal rates across the book, how much of revenue is steady year-round maintenance versus the weather-dependent snow work that can swing hard from one winter to the next, and the condition of the equipment. The quiet lever here is pricing: Long-tenured maintenance contracts tend to lag the market on rate, so the existing book is likely under-priced, and renewing it at current rates is upside a buyer captures without winning a single new account. The fragmentation that kept this market local is the same reason private equity keeps consolidating it. For a buyer with scale ambitions, the exit is already visible from day one.

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $11,250,000
💼 EBITDA: $993,000
📊 Revenue: $3,177,490
📅 Established: 1984

💭 My 2 Cents: Most waste haulers are straightforward route businesses. This one isn't. It comes with 4.02 acres of industrial land near the airport that’s already generating rental income and effectively impossible to permit and replicate in that submarket today (the real estate included explains the asking price). On top of it sit three connected businesses: roll-off container service, construction and demolition hauling, and a recycling operation that resells the aggregate it processes. Hauling is essential, route-based work that keeps billing when the economy cools because waste doesn't stop. Municipalities still need trash picked up, businesses still generate debris, and demolition actually tends to increase as developers clear older sites for cheaper redevelopment when new construction slows. That said, I'd want the split between contracted hauling and the spot project work that swings with the building cycle, plus the tipping and disposal costs (the fees this business pays to dump material it can't recycle at third-party landfills or transfer stations) as well as the age of the trucks and processing equipment. National consolidators in this industry are perpetually buying up regional haulers for the route density they can fold into an existing network, so a patient owner here has a strategic exit most small businesses never get.

📍 Location: Indiana
💰 Asking Price: $2,495,000
💼 EBITDA: $418,402
📊 Revenue: $1,205,647
📅 Established: N/A

💭 My 2 Cents: This business has quietly built something rare in equipment rental: monthly contracts and a 95% retention rate in an industry where most transactions are completely one-off. It also operates with almost no competition within an hour's drive, which protects both pricing and utilization. There is a useful counter-cyclical wrinkle underneath it too, since renting tends to rise when buying stalls. Equipment rental penetration hit a new record of nearly 60% in 2025, and it tends to gain ground in almost every bout of economic uncertainty short of an outright recession. I'd want the utilization rates across the equipment and the full customer mix, including whether a handful of contractors dominate the work. Above all, I'd dig into the fleet age and the replacement schedule coming due, since deferred equipment is the cost that quietly eats returns in any rental business and the one a departing seller is most likely to push down the road. The detail not to miss is that the sale includes almost nine acres of land and a building. A buyer owns the operating site outright rather than leasing it, and that real estate can meaningfully improve the terms of SBA loan, supporting a longer amortization than the business alone.

📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $1,800,000
💼 EBITDA: $402,007
📊 Revenue: $1,036,346
📅 Established: 1986

💭 My 2 Cents: Motors run roughly 70% of all manufacturing electricity and drive the pumps, fans, and machines on every factory floor, so when one fails it gets repaired or replaced regardless of the economic mood. What makes this more than a parts warehouse is the in-house repair shop, because refurbishing a failed industrial motor fast is specialized, defensible work, far harder to undercut than simply stocking components off a shelf. This business has been doing both for four decades. The team here is small and the owner is hands-on full-time, so the first thing I'd dig into is how much of the technical knowledge and customer relationships live with the owner (and how willing he is to support an extended transition). I’d also want to understand the revenue split between distribution and repair, which motor brands they're an authorized distributor for (since certified status protects margin and locks out competitors in ways a generic parts seller never can), and what the average repair turnaround looks like (since speed is the whole value proposition of the shop and where customer stickiness actually lives). For a buyer looking for growth upside, you’ll be happy to hear the seller already holds the environmental approvals for services the market wants but the company does not yet offer.