New Off-Market Businesses For Sale

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1/ Home Services Portfolio: Exterior Cleaning, Paver Restoration & Holiday Lighting

📍 Location: North Carolina
💼 EBITDA: $275,000
📊 Revenue: $650,000
📅 Established: 2020

💭 My 2 Cents: This business is essentially three complementary home services under one operational roof, with the real magic being seasonal diversification that keeps crews busy year-round. Holiday lighting drives 44% of revenue during peak season, paver restoration brings in 42% during warmer months, and exterior cleaning fills in the gaps at 12-14%, which smooths cash flow and reduces the feast-or-famine cycle most seasonal contractors face. The owners have largely stepped back to strategic roles, spending just 20-25 hours per week combined on pricing and marketing while a production manager runs day-to-day operations with three full-time employees and seasonal help during crunch periods. What's notable is they built this to $650K in revenue in under five years entirely through Facebook ads and digital marketing, which tells me there's real demand and effective customer acquisition that a buyer could scale further through SEO, direct mail to upscale neighborhoods, or partnerships with landscape designers and real estate agents. I'd want to understand gross margins across each service line to see which is most profitable, how dependent estimates are on the owners' pricing expertise, and whether the equipment and fleet can handle increased volume or needs upgrading. The fact that the owners are exiting to launch a franchise model teaching others to replicate this playbook speaks to the underlying repeatability and profitability of the business model itself.

2/ Lumber Manufacturing Business

📍 Location: Arkansas
💼 EBITDA: $400,000
📊 Revenue: $2,600,000
📅 Established: 1980

💭 My 2 Cents: Regional lumber mills that process local timber have an inherent advantage over distant commodity producers, and this business has spent four decades converting that geographic edge into reliable profits. With 25 W-2 employees handling production and the owner working just 15 hours a week on paperwork and oversight, the business runs like clockwork without heavy owner dependence, which tells me there's solid infrastructure and experienced staff managing day-to-day operations. The 15% EBITDA margin on $2.6M in revenue is respectable for lumber manufacturing, especially considering they've grown entirely through word of mouth and referrals without formal sales efforts or marketing spend. That organic growth pattern points to strong product quality and customer relationships, but it also highlights massive untapped upside through basic digital presence, outreach to regional contractors and builders, or partnerships with lumberyards and home improvement retailers. I'd want to understand the equipment condition and replacement cycles given the age of the business, the mix between standard cuts and custom milling work, and whether they own the facility or rely on timber supply agreements that could shift. The real opportunity here is that small lumber manufacturers with decades of operational know-how are increasingly scarce as consolidation reshapes the industry, giving established players like this one a structural advantage in serving regional markets that larger mills can't profitably reach.

3/ Home Inspection Service Business

📍 Location: Atlanta, Georgia
💼 EBITDA: $700,000
📊 Revenue: $1,800,000
📅 Established: 2002

💭 My 2 Cents: Home inspections ride the ups and downs of real estate activity, but this Atlanta-based business has weathered the slowdown and built a profitable operation that should benefit as transaction volume rebounds. With six inspectors each completing roughly two inspections per day across a 60-mile radius outside metro Atlanta, the company has achieved meaningful scale while maintaining a lean operational footprint supported by three schedulers and two field techs. What's particularly notable is the 39% EBITDA margin, which tells me the business has figured out efficient routing, pricing discipline, and consistent volume without burning cash on customer acquisition. Revenue comes almost entirely from real estate agent referrals built over two decades, which creates a sticky customer base but also raises questions about how concentrated those relationships are and what happens if a few top-referring agents retire or switch allegiances. The owner has been largely hands-off operationally, handling only finance and some agent relationship management, which means a buyer will need to either step into that role or ensure the team can maintain those connections independently. I'd want to understand inspector retention and compensation structures, the percentage of business tied to the top 10 agents, and whether there's capacity to add more inspectors or expand the service radius. With zero marketing spend over the last two years, even basic digital visibility could meaningfully expand volume in a metro area where new suburbs keep pushing further out and first-time buyers still need inspections regardless of rate environment.