JackQuisitions - Small Business Acquisitions in Home Service

Plumbing is one of the most profitable home service businesses to own, but building a successful plumbing company takes more than fixing leaks and unclogging drains.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down how to start, buy, and scale a plumbing business from a single truck to $10 million in annual revenue. From emergency service calls and water heater replacements to high-margin drain and sewer repairs, Jack explains why residential plumbing is one of his favorite businesses to own.Jack covers plumbing business startup costs, generating leads through Google, hiring skilled plumbers, and the operational challenges of scaling from $1M to $5M and beyond. He also explains why he'd rather acquire an established plumbing company than start from scratch, and what to look for before buying one in 2027.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━IN THIS EPISODEHow to start a plumbing business with 100K–200KWhy residential service plumbing is an attractive business modelHow plumbing companies make money through service, replacements, and sewer repairsGetting plumbing leads with Google Business Profile and Local Services AdsScaling a plumbing company from $1M to $5M and $10MHiring plumbers, building service teams, and managing laborWhy flat-rate pricing and operational systems are critical to profitabilityThe biggest mistakes owners make when growing a plumbing businessBuying a plumbing company vs. starting from scratchWhat Jack looks for when acquiring a plumbing business in 2027━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Quick StaffersHire trained HVAC and plumbing CSRs without the overhead of traditional hiring. Save $500 on your first placement with Quick Staffers: https://www.quickstaffers.com/ Catalyst | May 3–5 | Akron, Ohio100+ home service owners and operators. Three days of tactical sessions, real conversations, and learning from great operators.Grab your seat: https://www.ownedandoperated.com/catalyst   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FOLLOW JACKX (Twitter): https://x.com/thehvacjack━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Send us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

HVAC can be one of the most profitable home service businesses to own, but building a successful company takes more than emergency service calls and expensive system replacements.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down how to start, buy, and scale an HVAC business from a single truck to $10 million in revenue. Drawing from his experience acquiring five HVAC companies, Jack explains how maintenance agreements, service calls, and residential replacements create a powerful recurring customer pipeline.Jack covers HVAC startup costs, generating leads through Google, hiring and managing technicians, and the operational challenges of scaling from $1M to $5M and beyond. He also explains why he'd rather acquire an established HVAC company than start from scratch, and what to look for before buying.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━IN THIS EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Why HVAC is one of Jack's favorite home service businesses to own• How to start an HVAC business with 50K–100K• How HVAC companies make money through maintenance, service, and replacements• Building recurring revenue with maintenance agreements• Generating HVAC leads through Google Business Profile and Local Services Ads• Scaling an HVAC company from $1M to $5M and $10M• Why technician performance, labor, and callbacks can destroy profitability• Managing HVAC seasonality and slow months• Buying an HVAC business vs. starting from scratch• What Jack looks for when acquiring an HVAC company━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SPONSORS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Catalyst | May 3–5 | Akron, Ohio100+ home service owners and operators. Three days of tactical sessions, real conversations, and learning from great operators.Grab your seat: https://www.ownedandoperated.com/catalyst   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Send us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

Starting or buying a welding business can be a profitable opportunity, but success comes down to more than skilled labor.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down how to start, buy, and scale a welding company from a $50K mobile operation to a 5M–10M industrial services business.Jack explores the economics of mobile welding, fabrication, emergency repairs, and industrial contracts. He also covers startup costs, labor utilization, hiring skilled welders, and the biggest mistakes that can destroy profitability.Plus, Jack explains why he'd rather buy an established welding company than start from scratch, and what makes a welding business worth acquiring.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━IN THIS EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Why welding businesses can be a strong industrial services investment• How to start a mobile welding business for around $50K• The most profitable welding services and emergency repair jobs• Mobile welding vs. fabrication shops vs. industrial welding• How welding companies make money through skilled labor staffing• Scaling a welding business from $1M to $5M and $10M• Why labor utilization can make or break a welding company• The hidden risks of bad estimating, payroll, and material costs━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SPONSORS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━First Internet BankLooking to buy or grow a home service business? First Internet Bank offers SBA financing for acquisitions, partner buyouts, and commercial real estate. Mention Owned and Operated for a reduced good faith deposit, a free deal review, and buyside prequalification: https://alanfib.com/  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Send us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

Electrical businesses have a real path to $5M–$10M in revenue, but choosing the wrong business model can cost you everything.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down what it takes to start, buy, and scale a profitable residential electrical service company. From starting with less than $75K to building a multi-million-dollar operation, Jack explains where the money is made, why margins matter more than revenue, and what separates successful electrical businesses from struggling contractors.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In this episode:Starting an electrical business for under $75KTurning $300 service calls into $15K+ jobsScaling from $1M to $3M and eventually $10MThe biggest hiring, licensing, and pricing mistakesWhy residential service beats new constructionWhen buying an electrical company makes more sense than starting one━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjackSend us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

You don't need a massive marketing budget to grow a home service business. Sometimes the best opportunities are the ones your competitors are overlooking.In this special JackQuisitions feed drop from Owned and Operated, Jack Carr sits down with Sam Preston of Service Scalers to break down creative, low-cost marketing strategies that home service business owners can actually use.From Nextdoor and Facebook groups to yard signs, local partnerships, and community events, they explore unconventional ways to generate leads without relying on expensive advertising.They also discuss how one company generated over $500K in leads from Nextdoor, how yard signs contributed to the growth of an $8M plumbing business, and why smaller operators can compete with larger companies by getting creative with their marketing.Whether you're starting a service business from scratch, buying an existing company, or looking to grow without dramatically increasing your marketing budget, this episode is packed with practical ideas.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In This Episode:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Where to spend your first marketing dollars• Generating leads without expensive advertising• Nextdoor, Facebook groups, and Google Business Profile• How yard signs contributed to an $8M plumbing business• Building local partnerships and referral networks• Marketing expenses to avoid early on• Competing with larger companies on a smaller budget━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Sponsors━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Quick StaffersHire trained HVAC and plumbing CSRs without the overhead of traditional hiring. Save $500 on your first placement with Quick Staffers:https://www.quickstaffers.com/Catalyst | May 3–5 | Akron, Ohio100+ home service owners and operators. Three days of tactical sessions, real conversations, and learning from great operators.Grab your seat: https://www.ownedandoperated.com/catalyst━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Jack Carrhttps://x.com/thehvacjackSam Prestonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-preston-a682103b6/Originally featured on Owned and Operated. Subscribe to Owned and Operated for more conversations on building, buying, and scaling home service businesses.Send us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

Most people look at a construction site and see the companies building it. Jack Carr sees five overlooked businesses making money behind the scenes.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack breaks down five construction support businesses he'd consider owning: temporary fencing, portable toilet rentals, traffic control, temporary power, and job site security.These businesses solve problems contractors already need handled. Jack explains how equipment rentals, recurring service contracts, and long-term relationships with general contractors can create opportunities to generate repeat revenue without doing the actual construction.He also explores why job site security is particularly interesting as AI-powered surveillance and remote monitoring change how construction companies protect their equipment.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━IN THIS EPISODE• Temporary fencing and recurring equipment rentals• Portable toilet rentals and route-based sanitation services• Traffic control businesses serving contractors and municipalities• Temporary power, generator rentals, and job site infrastructure• Job site security, AI surveillance, and remote monitoring• Why construction support businesses can generate recurring revenue• Building long-term B2B relationships with contractors and developers• Why Jack likes owning the businesses behind construction━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect With Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Send us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

What if the truck itself was the business?In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down five specialized truck businesses he’d consider starting: septic pumping, roll-off dumpsters, street sweeping, tree service, and hydro excavation.These aren’t generic trucking businesses. They’re specialized assets solving problems that homeowners, contractors, property managers, utilities, and municipalities already need solved.Jack covers why specialized equipment creates a barrier to entry, where recurring revenue comes from, how one truck can expand into multiple services, and how to go from owning yourself a job to building a fleet, hiring operators, and creating a real business.In this episode:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Septic pumping and installation• Roll-off dumpster businesses• Street sweeping contracts• Tree service and bucket trucks• Hydro vac and hydro excavation• Recurring B2B revenue• Scaling from one truck to multiple crews• Why specialized equipment can create a competitive moat━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SPONSORED BY QUICK STAFFERS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hire trained HVAC and plumbing CSRs without the overhead of traditional hiring. Save $500 on your first placement with Quick Staffers:https://www.quickstaffers.com/Send us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

You can build a $2 million business drilling holes in the dirt, and it has nothing to do with oil or water wells.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down the business of environmental and geotechnical drilling, where specialized crews use equipment like Geoprobes to collect soil, groundwater, and rock samples for environmental consultants, engineers, contractors, and government agencies.Jack covers how these companies make money, what drilling equipment costs, why a small group of repeat engineering firms can create a strong customer base, and why he’d rather own the drilling subcontractor than become an environmental consultant.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━IN THIS EPISODE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• How environmental and geotechnical drilling works• How drilling companies make money• $100K–$400K specialized drilling equipment• Environmental sampling and monitoring wells• Geotechnical drilling and soil testing• Why engineering firms outsource drilling• Building a repeat B2B customer base• How Jack would start and scale the business• Why he’d stay a subcontractor instead of consulting━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Catalyst | May 3–5 | Akron, Ohio100+ home service owners and operators. Three days of tactical sessions, real conversations, and learning from great operators.Grab your seat: https://www.ownedandoperated.com/catalystSend us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

You can build a million-dollar-a-year business by putting cones on the road.In this episode of JackQuisitions, Jack Carr breaks down the surprisingly lucrative business of traffic control and why contractors are willing to pay thousands of dollars per day to keep road projects moving safely.Jack covers how traffic control companies make money through flagging labor, trucks, lane closures, setup and teardown, and equipment rentals. He also breaks down how two crews averaging $2,500 per day could generate roughly $900,000 per year, and how adding specialized equipment can push an operation into the $2M-$3M revenue range.Most importantly, Jack explains why he wouldn't build this as a simple flagging company. His playbook is to turn it into a specialized equipment rental and logistics business with labor attached.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In this episode, Jack covers:• How traffic control companies actually make money• Why contractors need traffic control for roadway projects• How small projects can start around $2,500 per day• How two crews could generate roughly $900K per year• How equipment rentals can push revenue into the $2M-$3M range• The labor, scheduling, safety, and insurance challenges of the business• Why Jack would focus on owning trucks, signs, boards, cones, and barricades• How Jack would find his first traffic control customers━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Follow Jack for More Business & Acquisition Insights𝕏: https://x.com/thehvacjack━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#BusinessIdeas #SmallBusiness #Entrepreneurship #TrafficControl #JackQuisitionsSend us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.

The SBA rules for buying a business are changing in 2026. Here’s what buyers and home service operators need to know.Jack Carr sits down with Alan Peterson from First Internet Bank to break down the latest SBA 7(a) changes, including how buyers can finance up to 90% of an acquisition, new equity requirements, seller financing, and changes affecting minority investors.They also cover how sellers can stay involved for up to 24 months after closing, strategies for navigating licensing when buying HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other skilled trades businesses, and new Quality of Earnings requirements for larger acquisitions.Plus, Alan explains one of the biggest opportunities for existing business owners: using SBA expansion financing to acquire another company with potentially 0% down when the deal qualifies.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Inside This Episode━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Buying a business with an SBA 7(a) loan • Financing up to 90% of an acquisition • New 2026 SBA equity requirements • Seller financing and transition rules • Licensing strategies for home service acquisitions • Quality of Earnings and business valuations • SBA expansion loans and potential 0% down acquisitions • What buyers should know before making an offer━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Sponsors━━━━━━━━━━━━━━AvocaSee how Avoca helps home service companies book more jobs with AI that handles calls, texts, follow ups, and dispatching without adding more chaos.Book a demo: https://www.avoca.ai/partners/oaoFieldPulseReady to ditch the whiteboard and spreadsheets? See how FieldPulse helps home service companies simplify scheduling, dispatching, invoicing, and more.Book a free demo: https://landing.fieldpulse.com/owned_and_operated ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Jack Carrhttps://x.com/thehvacjack Alan Petersonhttps://alanfib.com/ Owned and Operatedhttps://www.ownedandoperated.com/Send Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&OStart HereOwned and Operated Newsletter Bonus Videos From JohnLeave a ReviewJohn Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.Send us Fan MailJackquisitions Newsletter:Your favorite source for how to buy small businesses.🖊️ Sign up HERE for more insights 📢 Enjoyed the episode? ✅ Like, Comment & Subscribe for weekly insights on business acquisitions, deal flow, marketing, and growth strategies!📌 Disclaimer: Some links may include UTM parameters or affiliate relationships, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Episodes may feature sponsors, but all opinions expressed are our own.