He bought a $2.7M-a-year business
in 60 days. Here's how.

Every engagement opens with a full interview — background, operating experience, capital position and what he was equipped to run.

The interview, written up

Geography, financing capability, career track record and acquisition criteria — the document brokers read before they decide whether to take the call.

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IT / operations backgroundSBA pre-qualified

Accounts opened on every platform

A complete buyer identity — marketplace logins, broker portals and auction sites, created and maintained so he arrives as an established buyer, not an anonymous signup.

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We agreed the sectors, size and geography worth his time — then pointed the whole machine at it.

The kind of business we hunted

Real, boring, cash-flowing service and trade businesses — the ones banks finance and an operator can run.

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Every major marketplace, scanned daily against his buy-box. Scored, then the strongest applied to automatically.

Sourced, scored, tracked — daily

One engine watching every marketplace so nothing that fits gets missed on the day it lists.

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The full pipeline — every business we analyzed

336 real listings across every market, each scored and analyzed against his buy-box. Company names, marketplace links and locations stripped out — the sectors and financials are real. Scroll it: this is one buyer's raw funnel.

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336 analyzed → 1 under contract

Every deal — applied, chased & analyzed

Applied under his name, chased for weeks, and every memorandum that came back got analyzed — the work most buyers never do.

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65 applied · 25 analyzed · chased 4–5×

Relationships with brokers, so their listings reach the buyer before they reach the open market.

The broker sequence, running

A structured two-week sequence sent from his address — introduction, credentials, a market note, then the day-10 ask for anything pre-market. NDAs signed same day.

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31% reply · avg ~8%25 CIMs received

Going directly to owners who never listed — the hardest channel to run, and where the least competitive deals live.

Direct-to-owner, done properly

Build the owner list, enrich contacts, stand up sending domains, warm them, then run outreach at volume — monitored daily.

Applications, NDAs and proof of funds go out under his name — so brokers deal with a buyer, not an agency.

NDAs signed and returned same day

Confidentiality handled for him, so nothing waits on paperwork.

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Proof of funds, on demand

Brokers won't release a memorandum without evidence a buyer can pay. Generated per deal so his place in the queue never stalled.

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The letter the broker receives

On Acquisitions.com letterhead, pre-qualified to a stated amount, valid 90 days — buyer name filled per deal, shown blank here as a template.

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The heart of it. These are the actual books of the business he's buying — pulled apart line by line on a 96-minute diligence call.

Narrowed to the five we fully analyzed

From 300+ screened down to the handful worth a full model — 65 applied, 25 memoranda, 9 shortlisted, 5 fully analyzed, 1 under contract.

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300+ → 5 → 1

The five, as we tracked them

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The five memoranda, read cover to cover

Every confidential memorandum for a shortlisted deal — every company, owner, broker, customer and supplier name blacked out; the financials left in.

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Drywall & interior finishing · 15 pages

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Design / manufacturing · 39 pages

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Consulting services · 36 pages

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Lab equipment services · 8 pages

Five years of the seller's books

Revenue, COGS, every expense line and a normalised EBITDA / SDE bridge across 2021–2025. Broker mark and company name redacted — the numbers are real.

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SDE $334K–$492K2021–2025

Every expense line, verified

Payroll, subcontractors, taxes, tools, travel — down to the dollar, from the company's own QuickBooks.

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Receivables aged, buyer by buyer

The A/R aging pulled straight from their books — $54K current, $101K in the 1–30 bucket. Customer names and the company redacted.

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The two-year forward model we built

Month-by-month revenue, operating expenses, debt service and net income — so the buyer knew exactly what the business throws off after the note.

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$2.74M Y1 revenue modelled

A full 16-page due-diligence report

Executive summary, revenue quality, add-back audit, working capital, risk register and a recommendation — built per deal.

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The 230-point on-site owner interview

History, operations, sales, customers, estimating, employees, financials, fleet, risk and growth — the questions he walked in and asked, on his behalf.

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230 questions

What the diligence call surfaced

Ninety-six minutes with our M&A lead, line by line — the real catches that move price and protect the buyer.

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Price, earnings, debt service and the funding stack — modelled before anyone got attached.

The deal model — does it service its own debt?

Purchase, financing stack, yearly debt service and coverage ratio — modelled on the real numbers. DSCR 2.44, with $243K in cash flow after debt.

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DSCR 2.44$243K post-debt cash flow

The deal, in figures

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We introduced him to a real SBA lender, drove the term sheet, and negotiated the structure.

A real bank term sheet — lender redacted

A live SBA 7(a) proposal against his financials, liquidity, credit and experience. We negotiated his personal real-estate out of the collateral.

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SBA 7(a)real estate kept out

The actual loan structure

SBA 7(a) term note plus an express line of credit — purchase, working capital, fees, cash injection and seller note.

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$1.2M facility10% down

We read the term sheet line by line

Our review before he signed — prepayment penalty, real-estate collateral, life-insurance, the seller note, the working-capital risk and equity seasoning. Real emails; names & addresses masked.

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buyer ↔ Acquisitions.com ↔ lender

His money, or ours to find

He wanted his own equity and no dilution, so we structured it that way. When a buyer would rather not, we open the investor room and bring the capital to the deal.

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One shot at the right business. We structured the deal, wrote it, and it came back signed and accepted — under contract.

The letter of intent — signed by both sides

100% equity buyout at $1,000,000, structured for SBA. Signed by the buyer, accepted and countersigned by the seller. Names and entity blacked out; signatures and dates are real.

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accepted July 1under contract

The broker thread that got it signed

The real emails between the buyer, the broker and our team over the signing — every name masked, our acquisitions.com address kept.

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buyer ↔ broker ↔ Acquisitions.com

Every deal, side by side

Price, earnings, multiple, coverage and cash flow — with the LOI and full report one click away on each.

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A report every day, and a live portal he can open any time.

A daily activity report

Brokers contacted, replies, NDAs signed, PoF letters, CIMs received, deals analysed and calls booked — every day.

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Under contract and in diligence — roughly two months from first call to a signed deal.

A 96-minute working diligence call

Not a course, not a chatbot — an hour and a half going through the financials, the model and the on-site plan, line by line. This is the actual recording.

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1 hour 36 minutes on one deal

Where GCs, builders and homeowners look first — and making sure the business is there.

A drywall site that answers & quotes 24/7

Built for the trade — GCs, builders and homeowners land, and an AI chat qualifies the job (sq ft, hang vs finish, timeline) and books a site walk while you sleep.

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First on Google, and in the map

Paid at the top and number one in the local map pack. Both.

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And first when people ask AI

More work starts here every month. Almost nobody local has thought about it.

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The estimator's calendar full of the right jobs — commercial GCs and repeat builders.

You never write, film or edit an ad

Script → filmed or AI presenter → your approval → launched.

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Ads measured on awarded work

Not clicks. Not leads. Booked walk-throughs and awarded bids.

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One video, every platform

Made once, posted everywhere, every day.

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Every call answered, every enquiry in one place, booked straight onto the calendar.

A real call, answered and booked

Answered, qualified, booked — day or night.

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One inbox for everything

Calls, texts, website, Facebook, Google — one customer, one thread.

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You see it happen in Slack

Every call and booking as it lands.

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Where a contractor's money quietly dies — the quote that never got chased.

Every bid gets chased, automatically

A sequence over the weeks after a quote goes out — so awarded work isn't decided by who followed up.

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And we make sure they're there

Confirmation, reminders, the crew's name and "20 minutes out."

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Consistent quotes, every job priced the same way, coaching from what was actually said.

Your team on a real call

Recorded, transcribed, scored. The AI flags what was missed.

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Pricing stops living in someone's head

A rate book, options every time, and a scorecard showing who closes.

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Asked for after every completed job — the two cheapest sources of work there are.

The ask, and where it goes

Happy customers to public reviews; anything short comes back privately in time to fix. Then the referral ask.

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Stars climbing, month over month

Which is why you're now first in the map.

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And back to past customers

People who already bought once. No ad spend.

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One screen for today, one for the month — no waiting on the bookkeeper.

Today, live

Calls, jobs booked, revenue, and where it came from.

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And the month, closed for you

Revenue, costs, profit, cash — done without you chasing it.

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All of it behind one screen — stop clicking and simply ask.

Your whole business, in one conversation

"How did we do this week?" · "What's still unpaid?" · "Book the Thursday slot."

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Two businesses can earn the same and sell for completely different money — because size sets the multiple.

Size is what sets the price

The systems make it earn more now — and move it up the curve, which is worth even more on the way out. Same earnings, bigger business, higher multiple.

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same earnings → different exit multiple

Where it all leads: we partner, he takes liquidity now, and it rolls into a larger platform for a bigger exit together.

The exit we build toward — the roll-up

After we grow it, we partner: Acquisitions.com buys 25–50%, he takes liquidity off the table now, and the shop rolls into a larger construction-services platform that exits at a higher multiple than any single business could.

liquidity now + a bigger exit together