Portable Storage & Moving Franchise, Louisville KY (Since 2013)

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This is a portable storage and moving franchise operating in the Louisville, Kentucky market since 2013. The core model is renting portable storage containers to residential customers during life transitions (moves, renovations) and to commercial clients handling construction, restoration, and temporary space needs. The business delivers containers to a customer's site, and revenue compounds as families and businesses extend rentals month after month, producing the recurring stream that carries the operation.

The operation runs lean, with six employees (four full-time, two part-time) and a substantial container fleet and delivery equipment valued at roughly $700k in FF&E included in the asking price. On $3.1M of revenue it throws off $795k of cash flow, a healthy 26 percent margin driven by the fact that once containers are bought, they can be rented repeatedly over a long useful life. A B2B referral network of restoration companies and contractors feeds a steady flow of higher-margin commercial jobs.

At $2.5M against $795k of cash flow, the deal prices at roughly 3.1x. The seller is exiting for health reasons and offers seller financing, and the franchise structure supplies technology, lead generation, and training that lets an owner run the business in an executive or semi-absentee capacity rather than grinding daily operations. The container inventory is the real asset here: it is the moat and the engine of the recurring revenue.