Lawn and landscape maintenance company
Westerville, north of Columbus · In business since 2007. A nineteen-year maintenance company with 210 contracts, a loyal seasonal crew and a yard with a pole barn. Earns its owner about $230,000 a year.
The business
210 maintenance contracts, 140 residential and 70 commercial and association properties, which together are 71 percent of revenue. The rest is mulch, cleanups and snow.
People. Two year-round employees and nine seasonal, several returning for a decade. The owner estimates and manages the schedule.
Premises. A one-acre yard with a pole barn, leased at $1,900 a month. The lease is between the buyer and the landlord.
Hours. Seasonal, March through December, with snow and salt contracts in winter.
Pro forma
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $1,050,000 | $1,010,000 | $968,000 |
| Cost of sales | ($326,000) | ($313,000) | ($300,000) |
| Gross profit | $724,000 | $697,000 | $668,000 |
| Operating expenses, including the owner's pay | ($630,000) | ($613,000) | ($593,000) |
| Net income | $94,000 | $84,000 | $75,000 |
| Add back: Owner salary | $97,000 | ||
| Add back: Owner health insurance | $11,000 | ||
| Add back: Depreciation | $23,000 | ||
| Add back: One-time items | $5,000 | ||
| Owner's discretionary earnings, 2025 | $230,000 |
Swipe the table sideways for 2024 and 2023.
Gross margin 69 percent in 2025. Asking price is 2.43 times 2025 owner's earnings and includes equipment valued at about $140,000. Figures are rounded; the owner's tax returns and bank statements are provided to a buyer after the confidentiality agreement.
What is included
- Four trucks and five trailers
- Six commercial zero-turn mowers, trimmers, blowers and hand equipment
- Two plows and two salt spreaders
- The contracts, the phone number, the name and the customer records
What a buyer will notice
- Contracts renew on paper each winter; nothing is automatic.
- The commercial and association work has grown every year without any marketing.
- No irrigation, lighting or hardscape line, although the crews are asked for all three.
Role today. Estimates, schedules and checks the crews; no longer mows.
Handover. One full season alongside the buyer.
Reason for selling. The owner is sixty-one and his knees have decided.
The asking price includes the trucks, the equipment and the contracts. SBA-financeable profile; seasonal cash flow is reflected in the pro forma.
Besides this page: texted to every lawn and landscape owner within fifty miles, sent to the buyers on our list who asked for Columbus and lawn and landscape, and shown to lenders who finance deals like it. The owner gets a weekly text with who looked and who asked.
Tell us who you are and what you can bring. After the confidentiality agreement you receive the owner's name, the address, three years of tax returns and a walk-through.
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