New Off-Market Businesses For Sale

An RV rental business, dental marketing agency, and more...

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Hello SMB Deal Hunters!

I’m excited to share 3 new off-market businesses for sale in this week’s issue of Off The Grid.

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NEW OFF-MARKET DEALS

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1/ RV Rental, Sales, and Service Business

📍 Location: Northern California
💼 EBITDA: $600,000
📊 Revenue: $6,000,000
📅 Established: 1978

💭 My 2 Cents: An RV business that runs sales, rentals, and service under one roof is a fundamentally different animal than a pure rental shop, and this 47-year-old operation in Northern California has built all three into a single self-reinforcing machine. Customers rent before they buy, and buyers return for service, which creates a natural flywheel that keeps the lot busy across multiple revenue streams. Worth flagging upfront: $600K in EBITDA on $6M in revenue is a 10% margin, well below what you'd typically expect from a business like this, but the owner told us that they normally run closer to $1.2M to $1.4M in EBITDA, with 2025 being a down year due to facility investment. A buyer needs to get comfortable with those numbers before anything else, because the "normalized" EBITDA story matters a lot to how you underwrite this. I'd also want to understand the depreciation and cap-ex schedule on the fleet, how RV sales volume has trended as the broader RV market softens post-pandemic highs, what seasonality looks like, and what the facility investment actually bought in terms of capacity or efficiency. with the RV rental market projected to keep growing through the decade, a buyer would be stepping into something with real staying power.

2/ Dental Marketing Agency

📍 Location: Michigan
💼 EBITDA: $900,000
📊 Revenue: $2,250,000
📅 Established: 2006

💭 My 2 Cents: Most digital marketing agencies are generalists chasing whoever will write a check, which is exactly what makes this one different. 75% of its revenue comes from dental practices, who are predictable buyers of marketing services because patient acquisition is non-negotiable for them. This firm has locked in that dynamic with a 12-month onboarding contract followed by month-to-month retainers and an average client lifespan of 4-5 years. A 40% EBITDA margin on $2.25M in revenue with 12 W-2 employees, including a COO and a lead developer with 9 and 14 years of tenure respectively, tells me the operation runs with real institutional knowledge rather than depending entirely on the owner. The biggest structural risk here is concentration: if 75% of revenue sits in dental, a negative shift in dental practice economics, DSO consolidation trends, or a single large client walkout could move the needle fast. I'd want to understand how many clients make up that dental book, whether the recently hired 1099 sales rep has started generating new volume, and how revenue has trended year-over-year rather than just at the current snapshot. Ultimately, niche marketing agencies with this kind of retention don't become available often.

MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Cory spent 13 years managing restaurants. Started a clothing line that COVID killed. Was piecing together income with a real estate license on the side.

He knew he wanted out. Made that decision two years before he finally pulled the trigger.

10 months after joining SMB Deal Hunter Pro, he closed on a $1.85M early education childcare center in York, PA.

But the best part?

8 months later, he only spends 1-2 hours a week on it. And he used the cash flow to buy his dream passion project (a 10-acre wedding venue).

3/ Industrial Motor Distribution and Modification Business

📍 Location: Northern California
💼 EBITDA: $800,000
📊 Revenue: $1,700,000
📅 Established: 1985

💭 My 2 Cents: When a distribution and modification business is throwing off 47% EBITDA margins, the first thing you want to understand is why, because that number is far above what typical distributors generate and almost always points to something specific worth digging into. In this case, the answer is likely the modification side: customers aren't just buying motors off a shelf, they're paying for a four-decade accumulation of technical know-how that lets this shop modify and configure motors to precise industrial specifications, which commands pricing that commodity distributors can't touch. 40 years of word-of-mouth reputation in industrial circles is genuinely difficult to replicate, and the 15-year shop manager provides real continuity that a buyer can lean on. The owner dependency concern is real though. He's turning 70, handles all customer relationships and trade show networking personally, and those relationships in industrial distribution are often intensely personal. I'd want to know which customers are connected to the business vs the owner, what the contract structure looks like with key accounts, and whether revenue has been declining alongside the slide from $2.1M peak to the current $1.7M. The manufacturing and automation buildout underway across the U.S. thanks to onshoring and infrastructure spending is a legitimate tailwind for industrial motor demand, but a new owner will need a real transition plan to preserve the relationship equity that built this business before the current owner walks out the door.

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