Exit Preparation
Selling Your Home Services Business: What Buyers Actually Look At
What buyers actually look for when acquiring a home services business. The seven evaluation criteria and how to position your company for...
Financial Management
Roofing Profit Margins: Benchmarks From Real P&Ls Across Residential and Commercial Operations
Across the hundreds of home services P&Ls we’ve reviewed — including dozens of roofing companies — roofing profit margins look fundamentally different...
Exit Preparation
How to Sell Your Electrical Business: Valuation, Timeline, and What Buyers Want
Electrical contracting businesses are increasingly on the radar of private equity firms and strategic acquirers — but the market is different from...
Exit Preparation
How to Sell Your Plumbing Business: What Buyers Actually Look For
After reviewing over 200 home services acquisitions on the buy side — including time at Apex Service Partners — I can tell...
Financial Management
How Much Should HVAC Business Owners Pay Themselves?
HVAC owner compensation benchmarks by company size. How to structure salary vs. distributions and avoid the mistakes that cost owners during due...
Financial Management
Home Services Overhead Rate: How to Calculate and Benchmark Your Operating Costs
How to calculate and benchmark your home services overhead rate. Category-by-category targets and the five most common overhead problems contractors face.