New Deals: An absentee-run waxing and facial spa chain with 5 locations, 100-year-old butcher shop with real estate included, and 3 other finds...

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📍 Location: Florida
💰 Asking Price: $995,000
💼 EBITDA: $400,000
📊 Revenue: $1,250,000
📅 Established: 2023

💭 My 2 Cents: Waxing runs on a biological clock instead of a customer's mood. Hair regrows on its own schedule and most areas need attention again every 3 to 6 weeks, so a chain selling into that cycle can plan a calendar an ordinary salon cannot. This one runs five Florida locations inside an established franchise system, with a subscription plan bringing in $40,000 to $50,000 a month across 23 staff. The owner is down to 10 to 15 hours a week, and the general manager who runs the locations has agreed to stay on after a sale. Florida licenses waxing on 220 hours of school and no state exam, so a new waxer can be trained and on the floor inside a few months. That said, I'd want revenue by location with the date each one opened. It is a chain built since 2023, so the five are at different points on the ramp. I'd also want to know whether guests prepay for packages or pay month to month, because a prepaid visit is a service the seller already collected on that the buyer still has to deliver. And I'd want the active guest count and the share of guests who book the next appointment before they leave, since prebook rate is critical in a trade this repetitive. At $995,000 for five open locations the price works out to under $200,000 each, less than half the $278,000 to $425,000 the largest waxing franchise in the country says it costs to open a single new center.

📍 Location: Florida and Ohio
💰 Asking Price: $1,390,000
💼 EBITDA: $481,605
📊 Revenue: $2,344,180
📅 Established: 10+ Years Ago

💭 My 2 Cents: Most freight rides in a dry van, where one truck is as good as the next and the cheapest bid wins the load. An aircraft engine does not fit in a box. It rides on a step deck, a flatbed with a drop in the middle so tall cargo clears bridges, and it gets chained down and covered with tarps by hand. This company owns its tractors and leases them, with drivers, to freight carriers who hold the federal authority to haul. Those carriers find every load, set every price, and handle dispatch and compliance, and the main carriers it leases to have been with the company 8 to 10 years. The owner spends about 20 hours a week on drivers and maintenance with no office staff at all. First stop is the lease agreements, to find out whether those 8 to 10 years are a contract or a habit: how much term is left, and how much notice a carrier has to give before pulling the trucks off the lease. Then the fleet, age and mileage on every tractor, because replacing one is a six-figure decision. Then the insurance, whose policy covers the cargo and at what limit, since an aircraft engine is worth more than the truck carrying it. Leasing your trucks and drivers to a carrier that holds the authority is permitted without holding any of your own, so a buyer here never applies for operating authority, never carries the safety rating, and never has to go sell a load. That is a much smaller job than running a trucking company.

📍 Location: Texas
💰 Asking Price: $1,999,995
💼 EBITDA: $786,642
📊 Revenue: $2,245,325
📅 Established: 1996

💭 My 2 Cents: A family books a birthday party weeks ahead and pays a deposit before anyone arrives. That gives an entertainment business a forward order book most consumer operations never get. This one has been running in Texas since 1996, serving families, schools, youth groups and corporate bookings alongside walk-in visitors, and the sale includes the attractions themselves. There are 37 people on the payroll, the owners are semi-absentee and a long-tenured management team runs the locations. The revenue split between booked group events and general admission matters most here, since one arrives with a deposit and a date while the other depends on weather and the school calendar. Attraction age comes next, what has been replaced recently and what is due, because equipment children use every day wears out on a schedule. Then the leases, with remaining term and renewal options, since attractions bolted into rented buildings are only worth what the leases let them keep earning. The furniture, fixtures and equipment on this listing come to $2,633,822 against an asking price of $1,999,995, so the seller is asking less for the business than he says its contents cost him.

📍 Location: Indiana
💰 Asking Price: $2,900,000
💼 EBITDA: $475,000
📊 Revenue: $2,627,000
📅 Established: 1989

💭 My 2 Cents: A lakefront homeowner buys a dock once. Then somebody has to pull it out of the water every fall before the ice comes, store it somewhere dry all winter, and put it back in every spring. That brings the same company back twice a year for as long as the dock lasts. This Indiana business has been doing that work since 1989, selling, installing, servicing, removing and storing piers, docks and lifts across 15 staff, with three straight years of growth on both lines. About 45% of revenue is service work and the rest is product sales, an unusually even split for a trade most people picture as installation. It is also turning down service and repair work for lack of manpower. The number I'd chase first is that declined work, quoted and totaled, because it is revenue sitting there waiting for one more crew. Next, the storage book, how many units come into the yard each winter and what each one pays, since that revenue arrives with almost no labor attached. And the month-by-month cash flow, because this business is seasonal and the money arrives in two short windows (spring and fall), but the loan payments come every month. The yard where that storage happens is a separate purchase, so a buyer who takes this business without it needs to account for renting space every winter for every dock the crews pull out of the water.

📍 Location: Pennsylvania
💰 Asking Price: $5,534,900
💼 EBITDA: $880,641
📊 Revenue: $5,302,016
📅 Established: 1927

💭 My 2 Cents: The national cattle herd started 2026 at 86.2 million head, the smallest count since 1951 and the seventh straight annual decline, and retail beef reached a record $9.64 a pound in April. A meat counter buying into that market has every reason to be squeezed, which is what makes it worth saying that this Pennsylvania shop posted record revenue and record owner earnings in 2025. It has been in the same family and the same building since 1927, sells almost entirely retail rather than wholesale to restaurants, and the 8,000 square foot building it works out of is included in the price. The first thing to check is how the counter prices move when the wholesale side moves, because holding earnings through a 13% jump in beef costs is either pricing discipline or one good year. The second is whether the shop breaks down whole carcasses itself or buys the cuts already boxed, since one cut can spike while the rest of the animal does not. The third is the share of sales coming from beef versus pork, poultry and prepared items, since the herd contraction does not reach all of them the same way. A herd only rebuilds by holding heifers back from slaughter, which makes beef scarcer before it makes it cheaper. Cattle prices usually peak in the first year of an expansion and take two or three more to come down, so a buyer here should plan on high costs through the early years of ownership rather than relief.