New Off-Market Businesses For Sale

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NEW OFF-MARKET DEALS

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1/ Eyelash Salon Chain

📍 Location: Arizona, Washington, Nebraska
💼 EBITDA: $400,000
📊 Revenue: $1,100,000
📅 Established: 2016

💭 My 2 Cents: Eyelash salons have quietly become one of the more attractive niches in personal care because the service requires refills every 2-4 weeks, creating predictable repeat revenue without the customer acquisition grind that plagues most beauty businesses. This five-location chain has built a smart cost structure by centralizing phone reception with two remote staff in Honduras who handle client coordination across all locations, keeping overhead low while maintaining service quality. Each salon runs with its own manager, and the owner has stepped back to an oversight role, which tells me the playbook is repeatable. The Arizona locations have nine years of operating history, while Seattle and Omaha are just a year old, giving a buyer optionality to acquire the mature cash-flowing stores alone or take on the growth locations at earlier valuations. What's notable is that the business manufactures its own lash products and glues in-house, which protects margins and creates a potential wholesale revenue stream. I'd want to understand stylist retention rates across locations, the client rebooking rate and average customer lifetime value, and how dependent customer acquisition is on the owner's personal brand or social media presence. The $15K startup cost per location signals real scalability if the model continues to prove out.

2/ Industrial Elevator Manufacturing and Service Business

📍 Location: Texas
💼 EBITDA: $850,000
📊 Revenue: $5,000,000
📅 Established: 1969

💭 My 2 Cents: Finding a business with genuine barriers to entry is rare, and this one has a big one: it's the only manufacturer of certain elevator parts and systems for 2,000-foot TV broadcast towers. That's the kind of specialization you simply can't replicate overnight. The 79-year-old owner has been absentee for five years, with an 18-person team including a general manager and sales manager running day-to-day operations, which tells me the institutional knowledge has been successfully transferred to employees. Revenue is sticky by design, with 60-70% coming from recurring service work driven by regulatory requirements for annual inspections, load testing, and full drop tests. I'd want to dig into the customer base of broadcast tower owners, understand how many towers exist nationally and what market share this company holds, and assess whether the proprietary parts manufacturing creates any product liability exposure. The 55+ years of operating history in such a specialized niche means relationships with tower operators likely span decades. In an era of private equity rolling up industrial service businesses, this kind of defensible niche with mandated recurring revenue is exactly what platforms are hunting for, which could mean a stronger exit multiple down the road or a faster path to a strategic sale.

3/ Commercial Cleaning Business

📍 Location: Southern California
💼 EBITDA: $350,000
📊 Revenue: $1,300,000
📅 Established: 1984

💭 My 2 Cents: Forty years in commercial cleaning is a long time, and this Southern California operation has the contract base and equipment fleet to show for it. The two owners spend just two hours combined per day on the business, overseeing a 30-person team that handles everything from regular janitorial to floor stripping and carpet cleaning. That level of owner detachment after four decades tells me the account relationships and operational systems are institutionalized in the staff, not dependent on the founders. The business has built up roughly 100 pieces of equipment including vacuums, walk-behind machines, and rotary machines, which represents meaningful asset value and signals capacity to service larger facilities. Customer acquisition still relies partly on door knocking, which points to untapped upside through digital marketing and inbound lead generation that most legacy cleaning businesses haven't pursued. I'd want to understand the contract renewal rates, average account tenure, and what percentage of revenue comes from the largest customers. In a fragmented industry where most competitors are small and unsophisticated, 40 years of reputation in a dense commercial market like Orange County is hard to replicate.