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📍 Location: Mississippi
💼 EBITDA: $2,100,000
📊 Revenue: $10,500,000
📅 Established: 2023

💭 My 2 Cents: This company buys houses, renovates them, and sells them as finished rentals to investors who live elsewhere, then manages the properties afterward. The usual version buys the house and renovates it first, then goes looking for an investor. What I like here is that the sequence runs the other way. The investor is locked in and puts up a $5,000 facilitation fee plus earnest money to hold the spot before any of the work starts, so nobody here renovates a house that has no buyer waiting for it. Three people cover business operations and marketing, and they have one in-house realtor with everybody else on contract. Five or six new investors arrive every month through organic social media with nothing spent on advertising, and the owner sits in another state and does not work in the day to day. What return those investors are actually seeing is where I'd start, since the model depends on them coming back for a second and a third house. The in-house realtor's tenure matters more than it looks, because the brokerage side runs on a licensed person and there is only one. I'd also want the share of houses sold that stay under management afterward. This company has to find a new house for every sale, but it does not have to find a new investor, so that list only gets longer every year a buyer holds it.

📍 Location: New York
💼 EBITDA: $500,000
📊 Revenue: $1,200,000
📅 Established: 1969

💭 My 2 Cents: A body shop straightens bent metal and repaints cars after a collision. Most shops get that work from insurance adjusters, and they pay for it by accepting the insurer's pricing and the insurer's choice of parts. This one has never made that trade. It has run since 1969 on drivers who ask for it by name, with no insurer agreements of any kind, so it sets its own labor rate. Smaller repairs are also increasingly never filed at all, because a driver with a $1,000 deductible facing a rate increase is better off paying cash, and those repairs go to whoever the driver already trusts. The owner stepped back last October and now oversees operations and finances remotely, with a general manager and 12 people on W-2 running the floor. What it actually charges an hour against the going insurer rate nearby is the number I'd want, since the whole point of never joining a program is the right to charge more. Whether the shop calibrates driver-assistance systems in-house or sublets that work out is the other thing I'd chase, since those calibrations now appear on more than a quarter of repairs at an average fee near $500. How long the general manager was with the shop before the owner stepped back matters too, since ten months is a short test on its own. The big collision chains are still buying independents while the number of claims keeps shrinking, and a shop that sets its own prices and owns its own customers is the one thing they cannot build from scratch.

📍 Location: New Jersey (Remote)
💼 EBITDA: $600,000
📊 Revenue: $1,200,000
📅 Established: 2017

💭 My 2 Cents: Every business needs new customers, and the alternative to buying meetings is hiring and training somebody to go find them. This company runs LinkedIn and email outreach for other businesses and hands them booked sales meetings. It fills its own pipeline exactly the same way, with no paid advertising anywhere, so its own funnel is the product demonstration. It books 650 qualified meetings a quarter for clients at under $60 a lead, and signs 30 to 40 new clients a quarter for itself. Ten to 12 people deliver the work, including three coordinators overseas, and two of the three partners could hand their work over in a month. The third partner still brings in the sales personally, and the company is deliberately building its way off that. Clients sign six-month terms and the company targets a 75% renewal rate, so what I'd want is how many clients from each quarter's signings are still paying two and three terms later. I'd also want last year's signings split between the outreach system and that partner's own relationships, which shows how far the transition has really gone. The sending setup deserves a hard look too, since the big inbox providers tightened their rules on bulk senders and an outreach program lives on domains that can be throttled without warning. With six-month terms, no single client is the asset here. The asset is the machine that keeps replacing them, and a buyer can watch it work before closing, because the company points it at itself.

📍 Location: Massachusetts and New Hampshire
💼 EBITDA: $485,000
📊 Revenue: $2,200,000
📅 Established: 2021

💭 My 2 Cents: A dumpster rental company drops a steel container at a job site and hauls it away when it is full, so the money is in how often the same container goes back out. Contractors here get a 30-day window and typically return it inside a week, which means the same piece of steel earns four times in a month. Three of the owner's five New England territories are for sale with 5 drivers on W-2 covering them, and marketing runs under 5% of revenue with Google bringing in most of the work. The owners are a couple, and while one is out of the day to day, the other still handles all the scheduling and the phones. What it costs to empty each container is the number I'd take apart hardest. Massachusetts will not let a mixed load of construction debris into a landfill, so it goes to a plant that sorts it first, and the company pays more per load than a hauler almost anywhere else at a price it does not set. What the slow months look like is the other thing I'd pin down, since payroll does not shrink when the ground freezes and a company running since 2021 has only a few winters to show. The franchise royalty here is a flat monthly fee per truck rather than a slice of revenue, so every extra dollar squeezed out of the trucks already on the road belongs to the buyer.

📍 Location: Massachusetts
💼 EBITDA: $2,000,000
📊 Revenue: $5,500,000
📅 Established: 2019

💭 My 2 Cents: A relocation company quotes a move, schedules it, and manages it through to the last box, then hands the actual carrying to crews it hires for the job. There are no trucks, no warehouse and no movers on the payroll, so what it sells is the coordination and the demand behind it. That demand is the unusual part. Between LinkedIn and its own website the company sees 10 to 15 quality leads a day, converting somewhere between 25% and 35%, and companies in Japan, China and the Netherlands come to it directly looking for full-service relocation. The owner still handles project management, sales, customer management and scheduling personally, all of it through specialized software. How a company overseas finds a mover this size is what I'd want to understand, since a standing referral or an agent network is an asset a buyer keeps and a lucky search result is not. Whether this company is the carrier of record on a move or an arranger of one matters just as much, because it decides who answers for a broken table when the crew that packed it works for somebody else. The subcontractor roster with how long each crew has worked here is worth asking for too, since tenure separates a real bench from whoever answered the phone that week. Adding capacity here costs a coordinator at a desk rather than a truck and a crew, so growth is a hiring decision instead of a capital one.