New Off-Market Businesses For Sale

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1/ Express Car Wash and Oil Change Business

📍 Location: New York City
💼 EBITDA: $500,000
📊 Revenue: $1,700,000
📅 Established: 2017

💭 My 2 Cents: Subscription car washes have become one of the hottest models in small business, and this Queens operation has the numbers to back it up: 1,700 active members paying $30 to $70 per month, which creates a predictable, recurring revenue base that most service businesses would envy. Processing 500 to 1,000 cars per day with 10 to 12 staff is solid throughput, and the oil change add-on is a smart way to boost per-visit revenue without requiring a separate customer acquisition effort. The asking price deserves a close look, though. At roughly 6x EBITDA (or about 2x revenue), the owner is pricing this at a premium to where most small businesses trade, which tells me they know the subscription revenue is valuable. I'd want to understand monthly churn rates on those memberships, how much of the revenue comes from subscriptions versus one-time washes, and what the lease terms look like since location is everything in the car wash business. One thing worth noting: one owner still manages daily operations full-time, so a buyer would need to either step in or hire a GM, and that cost could meaningfully compress EBITDA. In a borough with 2.3 million residents and limited land for new car wash construction, the real asset here may be the site itself.

2/ Full-Service Landscaping Company in Chicago Suburbs

📍 Location: Illinois
💼 EBITDA: $1,000,000
📊 Revenue: $9,300,000
📅 Established: 1985

💭 My 2 Cents: A 40-year-old landscaping company with 120 employees, a 50-truck fleet, and $9.3M in revenue is the kind of operational foundation that takes decades to assemble. This Chicago-suburbs operation covers the full spectrum of landscaping, maintenance, installations, and commercial snow removal, which smooths out the seasonality that kills most landscaping businesses. What really stands out is that 90% of customer acquisition comes from referrals and word of mouth, and residential clients are on annual service agreements while commercial contracts run one to three years, giving the business a sticky, recurring revenue base. The owner works just 9 hours a week and is willing to stay on post-sale, which tells me the team and systems are mature enough to run without daily oversight. I'd want to dig into crew retention and labor costs (the biggest margin risk in landscaping), the revenue split between maintenance and installation work, and how exposed the business is to seasonal fluctuations in snow removal income. With the Midwest landscaping market growing steadily and private equity rolling up operators across the country, a business this size with contracted revenue could be a strong platform acquisition.

3/ Commercial HVAC Business

📍 Location: Oklahoma
💼 EBITDA: $1,400,000
📊 Revenue: $4,300,000
📅 Established: 1995

💭 My 2 Cents: Commercial HVAC is one of the most defensible trades businesses you can own, and 30 years of operating history in a growing metro like Oklahoma City only strengthens that position. This company focuses on remodels, retrofits, and new construction rather than service work, which means higher average project values but also more variability in the revenue pipeline. One owner is semi-retired and the other works just 9 hours a week on sales and estimating, with a team of 18 handling everything else, which tells me the operational backbone is solid. Growth has come entirely through reputation and word of mouth, leaving obvious upside in digital marketing and formal bid processes for larger commercial projects. I'd want to understand the project backlog and how lumpy revenue can get between quarters, whether the estimating function is transferable or tied to the owner's relationships, and how the upcoming EPA refrigerant phaseouts (R-410A was banned for new systems in January 2025) are creating retrofit demand. The national skilled HVAC labor shortage, with the BLS projecting 9% job growth through 2033, means fewer new competitors are entering the market, which only widens the moat for an established shop like this one.