Garage & Overhead Door Installation Company, 1996 Arizona Contractor

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This is an Arizona garage and overhead door installer with roots back to 1996, serving residential builders, homeowners and commercial contractors. The business installs custom residential doors for new construction, standard residential replacement doors and openers, and commercial sectional and rolling steel systems. It runs lean from a single 3,200 square foot leased facility with four non-owner employees (two installers, one service tech, one dispatcher), supported by dispatch, scheduling and desktop accounting software.

The economics are builder-led and cyclical. The seller estimates roughly 75% of revenue comes from new construction through an established builder network, so earnings track Arizona construction activity rather than a steady, repeat service base. 2025 combined gross receipts were $3,743,373 with a seller-recast SDE of $600,665, priced at $1,835,000, or about 3.05x. Importantly, these are seller-reported, unaudited numbers that combine two separately reported operations with intercompany sales not yet eliminated, and the SDE is a recast, not a lender-approved figure.

There are real yellow flags a buyer must underwrite. 2026 interim records show the residential operation profitable but the commercial operation running at a net loss. Bidding, estimating, purchasing, scheduling and accounting all sit with the owner and spouse, so the competitive position leans heavily on personal builder relationships that must transfer for the value to hold. The owner is selling because limited working capital has capped the advertising needed to grow the higher-margin service side.