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📍 Location: Texas and Louisiana
💼 EBITDA: $300,000
📊 Revenue: $1,200,000
📅 Established: 2023

💭 My 2 Cents: Water damage is the second most common homeowners insurance claim, and insurers often hand those claims to outside administrators (TPAs, or third-party administrators) who assign each one to an approved contractor and grade how fast it calls the homeowner and gets a crew there, so the contractors who score well get sent more of the work. This franchise opened in 2023 and already takes in about 30 claims a month, nearly all of them through contracted TPA programs with no outside marketing. The owner stays mostly hands-off, taking occasional calls and checking in with crews remotely, while staff run daily operations. It uses no subcontractors, so the response times the programs grade are all its own employees’ work. That said, I’d want to see how the 30 claims a month split across the TPA programs, along with each program’s scorecard, since a strong score is what keeps a program sending claims and a weak one is where volume could slip. Then I’d want each program’s fee per job and how fast it pays, since the crews get paid long before the insurance money arrives, and that gap is cash a buyer has to bring. Set those aside and the growth opportunity is the channel this franchise has never used: plumbers are often the first call when a pipe bursts, so a buyer who adds plumber referrals and a Google presence can win jobs that come with no program fee attached.

📍 Location: Florida
💼 EBITDA: $250,000
📊 Revenue: $550,000
📅 Established: 2020

💭 My 2 Cents: This fleet docks at a resort, which puts it where most Keys visitors already are: 61.9% stay in a hotel, motel or resort (2024 visitor survey), so customers can walk to the boats instead of driving to a marina. The business operates on a transferable lease, and the owner’s involvement is minimal, with most days taking only a few phone calls. A part-time helper covers phones and paperwork, two full-time contractors and a few backups round out the crew, and the owner’s husband helps with maintenance. The fleet is three brand-new 2026 pontoons worth about $55,000 each and five 2022 boats worth about $15,000 apiece. That said, the first thing I dig into is the resort lease (years left, rent, and whether the resort takes a share of each rental), because the business doesn’t own its dock. Then I’d want to know whether the new boats added to the fleet or replaced older ones, since only added boats mean more rental days to sell. And I’d want to know when the five 2022 boats will need replacing, plus how many maintenance hours the owner’s husband puts in (since a buyer could be paying for a new boat and a mechanic within the first few years). If those check out, the rental mix works in a buyer’s favor. Florida requires an on-the-water check ride before every rental, which takes crew time. This company also rents by the week and month, so a single check ride can cover seven or thirty days of revenue instead of one, meaning longer rentals can grow without adding much crew.

📍 Location: California
💼 EBITDA: $400,000
📊 Revenue: $4,000,000
📅 Established: 2018

💭 My 2 Cents: An influencer marketing agency is the go-between that brands hire to find creators, negotiate their fees, approve their posts and report on the results. That work keeps growing, with U.S. brands on track to spend about $44 billion on creators in 2026, up from $29.5 billion in 2024. This agency has run in Southern California since 2018. As processes have improved, daily owner involvement has dropped, and the owner now oversees operations, handles prospective and major clients and steps in on senior-level issues. The client breakdown matters most here, so I’d want spend by client for each year. A total that holds steady can hide some clients leaving while new ones replace them, and the split tells a buyer whether this agency keeps its clients or keeps having to find new ones. Then I’d want to know how each client first came in, since nearly every one arrived through referrals and existing relationships with little to no sales outreach, and the relationships that brought in the biggest spenders show a buyer where the next clients are most likely to come from. The good news is the team already went from nine people in 2025 to five today by moving more of its work onto AI while client spending held steady, so if the $400K of EBITDA includes months at the bigger payroll, a buyer steps into a business earning more than the number above.

📍 Location: Remote (Oklahoma)
💼 EBITDA: $324,000
📊 Revenue: $2,700,000
📅 Established: 1984

💭 My 2 Cents: Many trades businesses can’t use a van straight from the factory: they need equipment installed and a protective coating inside before it can work, and they often need a loan to pay for it. This company handles all of it in one order: it sells the customer the van, arranges the install and interior coating, sets up the loan through a lender, and coordinates delivery. It has been around since 1984, and today the owner runs it part time with no employees from a laptop and a cellphone, personally coordinating every order while automakers, equipment distributors and lenders supply the vans, installs and loans. Nearly all customers come through referrals from equipment makers and distributors, so putting full-time hours into sales is the obvious growth opportunity. The order count matters most: how many vans the company handles a year and how long each takes to coordinate, since that shows whether part-time hours really cover it. Next is what the company keeps on a typical van once the vehicle, install and delivery are paid for, which shows how much of the revenue is its own. Then the referral sources, how many there are and what share of orders the largest one sends, since a company with no sales effort of its own depends on them for every van. Tax rules also work in a buyer’s favor: a cargo van over 6,000 pounds with no seats behind the driver can generally be written off in full the year it’s bought, which gives this company’s customers a reason to order before December 31.

📍 Location: North Texas
💼 EBITDA: $300,000
📊 Revenue: $650,000
📅 Established: 2003

💭 My 2 Cents: A sign shop’s work advertises itself: most of what it makes ends up on a customer’s building, where the next customer sees it before ever calling. This company has made signs and graphics in North Texas since 2003, getting most of its work through referrals and word of mouth. The owner, who is retiring, works full time on pricing, sales, material selection, and helping with production, with one employee alongside. My first question is how jobs get priced, whether from a written price sheet, estimating software, or the owner’s own judgment, since that’s what lets a new owner quote the next job at the same margin. After that, I’d want to know how long the employee has been there and which jobs they can produce alone, since that person is the entire production team once the owner steps back. And if the shop makes lighted signs, I’d want to know whose license that work runs under, since Texas requires a master electrician or master sign electrician behind it and gives a shop 30 business days to replace one who leaves. Outside the shop, demand is moving the right way: Dallas-Fort Worth added about 123,557 residents in the year to July 2025, the second-largest gain of any U.S. metro, and the stores, offices and restaurants that open to serve them all start with a sign.