Fort Worth Landscaping, 46-Year Texas Residential & Commercial Contractor

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This is a Fort Worth landscaping company founded in 1980, now in its 46th year of operation serving both residential and commercial customers across the Tarrant County market. The business runs roughly $8 million in annual revenue with $1.8 million in reported EBITDA, a healthy 22.5 percent margin for a labor-heavy service business. It carries about 47 full-time employees, a dedicated sales team, and roughly $2 million in equipment and business assets, giving a buyer real operating infrastructure rather than a thin asset base.

The company sits on four-plus decades of goodwill, repeat relationships, and an established local reputation for reliability. Importantly, the listing presents conflicting signals on the sales function: the headline highlights say a dedicated sales team is in place, while the growth section claims the company reached $8M without one. That contradiction is central to diligence, because the answer changes how you underwrite both the downside and the upside.

The seller is retiring after building this over 40-plus years, which is the cleanest reason to sell and typically supports a reasonable handover. At $8M asking against $1.8M EBITDA, the headline multiple is 4.44x, but a chunk of that price is backed by hard equipment assets, which shifts the real operating-earnings multiple lower than it first appears.