A thoughtful home for the company you built.

Essential service businesses across Southern California, typically $2M to $5M in annual revenue with $500K or more in adjusted EBITDA. Pest control, commercial janitorial, fire and life safety, pool service, and carpet care are examples rather than a complete list. What a company does matters less to us than whether its revenue recurs, its customers stay, and it runs without depending on any one person. If your business has those characteristics, it is worth a conversation even if the industry is not one we have named.

No. San Diego County is where we look first, since that is where we are based, and that includes Chula Vista, La Jolla, Carlsbad, Escondido, and Oceanside. Orange County, Riverside County, and the Inland Empire are all in scope, and a strong company elsewhere in Southern California is still worth a conversation. Distance tends to matter more for smaller businesses, where being close enough to be present regularly counts for more.

We work from a multiple of EBITDA or seller’s discretionary earnings. That multiple moves with the characteristics described in our acquisition criteria: how durable the revenue is, whether any single customer represents an outsized share, how much the business depends on the owner day to day, margin consistency, and the strength of the team. If we put forward a number, we will explain how we arrived at it.

That is negotiable, and we do not come in with a fixed preference. Some owners want a clean break. Others want to stay through a transition, or longer. Both are workable. It is something to settle together, and we would want to understand what you are hoping for before suggesting anything.

Our intention is to keep as many people as possible, including existing management. We are looking to buy a business that already works, and the people are a large part of why it works. If a company is carrying more overhead than its economics support, we would raise that openly before closing so there are no surprises on either side.

Sales of privately held businesses at this size commonly run about three to six months from the first substantive conversation to closing. That figure describes the market generally. Your own timeline will depend on how organized your records are, how financing comes together, and how quickly both sides want to move.

It depends on the business and on what you need. Cash at closing, seller financing, and earnouts all appear regularly in transactions of this size, and any of them may come up. We would expect structure to be part of the negotiation, shaped by the specifics of the company and by what matters most to you.

Early on, the basics: an income statement, a balance sheet, and tax returns. That is usually enough to tell whether there is a fit worth pursuing. Diligence beyond that varies with the business, and we will not pretend to know in advance everything a particular company will require.

We treat these conversations as confidential. Information goes only to parties who need it to evaluate or complete a transaction, such as a lender, an accountant, or an attorney, and no further. Confidentiality matters to your employees, your customers, and your own position, and we treat it that way.