Hello SMB Deal Hunters!
I’m excited to share 5 new off-market businesses for sale sourced directly by our team in today's Off The Grid issue.
👇 In Today's Issue:
#1: Nationwide Anesthesia Staffing and Billing Company with Contracts and $1.5M EBITDA
#2: 4-Center Childcare Business in FL Each With Directors and $820K EBITDA
#3: Wedding Venue in NY with On-Site Lodging for 80, Management Team, and $600K EBITDA
#4: Plumbing Company in TX with 10-Person Field Team and $900K EBITDA
#5: Luxury Pre-Owned Car Dealership in AZ with 4x Sales Growth in 4 Years and $500K EBITDA
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COMMUNITY WINS
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👀 Quick Update: We’re only halfway through October, and 5 Pro members have already closed deals this month, and another 7 have gone under LOI.
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NEW OFF-MARKET DEALS
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1/ Anesthesia Staffing and Revenue Cycle Management Company
📍 Location: New Hampshire
💼 EBITDA: $1,500,000
📊 Revenue: $10,000,000
📅 Established: 2016
💭 My 2 Cents: Surgery can’t start without anesthesia, and 62% of surgery centers in one 2026 survey canceled or delayed cases because they couldn’t find enough anesthesia providers. This company is who facilities turn to when that happens: since 2016 it has placed about 70 anesthesia providers (the clinicians who put patients under) with hospitals, surgery centers, and federal facilities under contract. It also handles the insurance billing, which in anesthesia is its own skill, since claims are priced by the minute and by case complexity. Billing services like this are usually paid a percentage of what they collect, which makes it the steadier income here, since it depends on a facility’s surgeries continuing rather than on this company filling every shift. A management team runs it day to day while the owner mostly checks in on performance, after spending the last 18 months handing off the daily work. It’s certified as a service-disabled veteran-owned business, which lets it bid on federal contracts reserved for those firms but requires a service-disabled veteran to own at least 51%. For that reason, I’d want the share of revenue from those reserved contracts and when each one ends. Next is how the billing is priced and how many staffing customers use it, since a facility that hands over both its staff and its claims has more to untangle before leaving. The providers are the piece I’d build on: growth in this trade is limited by finding people, not work, and since new contracts come through providers’ professional networks, each new recruit can bring in the next customer.
2/ Four Childcare Centers
📍 Location: Florida
💼 EBITDA: $820,000
📊 Revenue: $2,800,000
📅 Established: 2018
💭 My 2 Cents: A family that enrolls a baby in childcare can keep paying tuition until that child starts kindergarten around age five, and with a Florida center infant spot averaging about $13,000 a year, one enrollment can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. This company has run since 2018 and operates four centers, each with its own director who has been in place for more than three years, and the owner handles payroll and finance rather than any of the childcare work. The first thing I’d check is how long the average child actually stays, and whether each center offers VPK (Florida’s free pre-K for 4-year-olds, which 63% of the state’s 4-year-olds attend), since a center without it can lose a child a year before kindergarten. Teacher pay by center comes next, because Florida’s minimum wage rose to $15 an hour on September 30, and the financials may not show that raise yet. Most families find these centers through Facebook, so I’d also want what the company spends on ads for each family that enrolls, and how full each center is, since a waitlist is what supports higher tuition or a fifth center. The good news on labor is that $15 was the last of Florida’s scheduled jumps, and from 2027 the minimum wage rises only with inflation, which makes payroll a more predictable cost from here.
3/ Wedding and Event Venue With On-Site Lodging
📍 Location: New York
💼 EBITDA: $600,000
📊 Revenue: $780,000
📅 Established: 2001
💭 My 2 Cents: A country wedding venue with a suite for the couple still sends most guests to a hotel down the road, while one that can sleep the guest list gets paid for the whole weekend instead of just the reception. This one sits on about 206 acres in Upstate New York, where six cabins and a lodge sleep about 80 people, and it has hosted weddings since 2001, now about 45 times a year. The current owner bought it in 2022 and spends about half the year outside the country, while a husband-and-wife team runs the bookings, tours, event coordination, and upkeep. The owner also owns the land, and the numbers shared don’t appear to include any rent, so the first question is at what rent the property would be leased back (since that rent would come straight out of those earnings). With weddings running mostly May through November, I’d then want to know what the short-term cabin and lodge bookings bring in the other five months. I’d also want to understand the guest count at each wedding and how many of those guests stayed on the property, since that shows whether this venue is actually getting paid for the whole weekend. Weddings of 50 guests or fewer went from 10% of all weddings in 2013 to 18% in 2024, and with 40% of couples in 2025 cutting their guest lists over cost, that share has reason to keep climbing. That trend plays to this venue’s strength, since every guest at a wedding that size fits in the cabins and lodge, so it can host the whole weekend start to finish.
THE BREAKDOWN
The SBA just rewrote the rules for buying a business, and the latest round of changes went live on October 1st.
If you learned how these loans work before this year, what you can afford may have changed.
A few examples:
→ Banks check how much buffer the business’s profit has to cover the loan payment (that’s called DSCR). A first-time buyer used to need $1.15 for every $1. Now it’s $1.25.
→ You still put 10% down, but the seller and investors can now cover only half of it.
→ 🚨 Plus a new ownership rule where the wrong investor, even with a 1% stake, can sink your whole loan.
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4/ Plumbing Company
📍 Location: Texas
💼 EBITDA: $900,000
📊 Revenue: $3,250,000
📅 Established: 2021
💭 My 2 Cents: Texas has the highest share of homes built since 2010 of any state, about 2.5 million of them, and a standard tank water heater lasts 10 to 15 years. Homes from the early 2010s are now at the age when the original water heater gives out, which means years of replacement work for plumbing companies across the state. This company has run since 2021 and finds its customers through SEO and search rankings, online ads, and local magazine sponsorships, with 10 people in the field and 3 in the office. Texas requires every plumbing company to work under a licensed master plumber, and without one it can’t contract plumbing work at all, so the first thing I’d want to know is who holds that role today and whether anyone else on staff (ideally multiple for redundancy) could step into it before the owner leaves Texas. Then I’d look into how revenue splits between water heater replacements, repairs, and new construction, since replacements and repairs are more recession-resistant, while new construction rises and falls with home building. And I’d want the average ticket per job, plus how often a repair call turns into a water heater replacement, since that shows how much the technicians sell once they’re in the house. Worth noting: the owner’s part today is mostly sales calls and estimates, with only occasional field work, so the job a buyer steps into is selling, not plumbing.
5/ Luxury Pre-Owned Vehicle Dealership
📍 Location: Arizona
💼 EBITDA: $500,000
📊 Revenue: $4,000,000
📅 Established: 2000
💭 My 2 Cents: While luxury cars lose value faster than the average car (a BMW 7 Series gives up about 61.6% of its sticker price in five years, versus 41.8% for the average), that drop lets a pre-owned luxury dealer sell the same badge at a price far more buyers can pay. This dealership’s sales have roughly quadrupled over the past four years. With 54 years in the car business, the owner still does the buying, oversees reconditioning, and trains the sales staff about half the workweek. The team normally runs about 11 people, but headcount has been brought down to about half to prepare for the owner’s retirement. Used car prices hit a three-year high this spring, so the first thing I’d dig into is units sold and average price by year, which shows how much of the growth came from selling more cars versus each car selling for more. Then the inventory: how many cars are on the lot, how long each has sat, and whether they’re paid for or financed, since a luxury car keeps losing value every week it waits for a buyer. After that, I’d want each deal’s profit split between the car and the financing and service contracts sold with it, since those contracts now bring in most of a deal’s profit industry-wide (more than 80% late last year, by one benchmark), which shows how much really rides on the owner’s buying. The owner is willing to sell the real estate along with the business, and a buyer who takes the building also collects $15,000 to $16,000 a month from other commercial tenants, income that doesn’t depend on selling cars.
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Justin spent 20+ years managing warehouses and transportation. Then, 4 years ago, he was let go from his job.
If all that experience couldn't protect his job, what could?
While he looked for his next role, one thought stuck with him: “man, it’d be great if I just sort of ran my own business.”
So after landing a new job, he spent 2 to 3 years searching on the side, combing through hundreds of deals while teaching himself how buying a business works.
And after all that time, he still hadn’t bought one.
So he set himself a deadline: buy a business within the next 12 to 18 months.
To pull it off, he’d need help from people who’d done this before.
That’s when he joined SMB Deal Hunter Pro to get there faster, and put in 15 to 20 hours a week searching.
All around a full-time job, and being a single dad.
His first deal got so close that he'd already handed in his notice at work.
But the seller backed out at the finish line, after the diligence, legal and accounting were all done.
That same day, a landscaping company he’d passed on as too pricey came back. In his words, “maybe this is divine intervention or something.”
Today, that company is his. It cash flows about $425K a year, and he’s already $20K to $30K ahead of plan.
THAT’S A WRAP
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