Full-Service Auto & Light Truck Repair Business, 18-Year Houston Shop

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This is a full-service auto and light truck repair shop in Houston, Texas that has been running since 2008. It handles the full menu of automotive work: diagnostics, brakes, suspension, engine repair, transmission service, preventive maintenance, and fleet maintenance for both retail walk-in customers and commercial fleet accounts. The shop operates out of an 11,200 square foot leased facility staffed by 22 people, including ASE-certified technicians, and services over 2,800 active customer vehicles.

The standout feature here is scale. At $5.8M in revenue, this is not a two-bay corner garage. It is a sizable, multi-technician operation with real infrastructure and an established brand in a large, growing metro market. Roughly 12.4% EBITDA margins ($720K on $5.8M) are respectable for a high-volume repair shop where parts and labor eat a big chunk of revenue.

What makes this durable is the mix of recurring fleet maintenance relationships layered on top of a large base of repeat retail customers. Fleet accounts create predictable, scheduled work that smooths out the lumpiness of retail traffic. The seller is transitioning to semi-retirement and will assist with a handover, and the real estate is available separately or by lease assumption, so the buyer is buying an operating business rather than a real estate deal wrapped in a shop.