Legacy Tree Care Business, 30-Year Central Florida Contractor

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This is a 30-year-old tree care operation serving Pasco, Hernando, and Citrus counties in Central Florida, one of the fastest-growing residential corridors in the country. The company offers a full menu of services including tree removal, pruning, storm prep and cleanup, stump grinding, and the sale of firewood, mulch, and topsoil, giving it a one-stop-shop position with both residential and commercial customers. It generates roughly $2.62M in revenue and $836K in cash flow, a strong 32% owner-earnings margin for a field-services business of this size.

What makes this notable is the infrastructure. There are 16 full-time employees organized into two to three crews, with a layered management bench: office manager and staff, a field manager, multiple foremen, estimators, experienced climbers, and ground crew. That depth is rare in tree care, where most operators of this size still ride shotgun on every job, and it means a new owner is buying an operating machine rather than a job.

The sale includes $1.5M of FF&E, primarily a well-maintained fleet, which is a meaningful chunk of the value and separates this from a pure-services comp. The real estate (a 10,000 SF facility valued at $2.6M) is available for lease or separate purchase but is not part of the ask. Seller is retiring and offering only a 30-day handover, which is thin given the owner's role and worth pressure-testing in diligence.