Property Restoration Franchise, 8-Year Southern California Contractor

$8.1M

Revenue

$1.3M

SDE

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This is a rare opportunity to acquire an established property restoration franchise serving a large Southern California territory. The business has built a strong reputation over nearly a decade by... Businesses Franchises Brokers Loading... Top Rated Property Restoration Business With Management Team Ventura County, CA Asking Price:$6,000,000 Cash Flow (SDE):$1,347,000 EBITDA:Not Disclosed Gross Revenue:$8,106,276 Established:2016 Top Rated Property Restoration Business With Management Team Business Description Premium Brand, Great Growth Potential This is a rare opportunity to acquire an established property restoration franchise serving a large Southern California territory. The business has built a strong reputation over nearly a decade by providing essential restoration services to residential and commercial customers while generating the majority of its work through long-standing insurance carrier relationships and referral partners. The owner operates in a strategic, semi-absentee role of approximately 25 hours per week, supported by an experienced management team that oversees daily operations. With recurring insurance-based demand, a seasoned workforce, and proven operating systems already in place, the business offers an exceptional opportunity for an owner-operator, strategic buyer, or investment group seeking a scalable platform in a recession-resistant industry. Ad#:2535151 Detailed Information Furniture, Fixtures, & Equipment (FF&E): $500,000 Included in asking price Facilities: The business operates from an approximately 25,000-square-foot office and warehouse facility and includes a debt-free fleet of work vehicles, professional restoration equipment, warehouse inventory, customer database, website, phone numbers, and all operational assets required to continue serving the market from day one. Competition: The property restoration industry benefits from recurring, insurance-funded demand driven by water damage, fire losses, storms, and other property-related events. The business operates in one of the country's largest and most active restoration markets and has developed long-standing relationships with insurance adjusters, referral partners, and national programs that generate the majority of its work. Growth & Expansion: Opportunities exist to expand commercial accounts, increase reconstruction capacity, deepen relationships with carrier programs, participate in new managed repair initiatives, grow self-pay restoration work through financing programs, and further penetrate underserved areas within the existing exclusive territory. Support & Training: The seller will provide comprehensive transition assistance following closing to ensure a seamless ownership transfer. The franchisor also provides ongoing training, operational support, estimating assistance, marketing resources, and business development support. The seller would also consider remaining involved in a sales and business development capacity during the transition period. Reason for Selling: Seller is pursuing a transition due to personal health circumstances. Business Location Location: Ventura County, CA Real Estate: Leased Financial Benchmarks for California Restoration and Remediation Businesses Gross Revenue Benchmarks Cash Flow (SDE) Benchmarks EBITDA Benchmarks BizBuySell EDGE Demographic Information for Ventura County Area Household Income Population Age Population Trend Population by Race/Ethnicity BizBuySell EDGE Listing Statistics Saved This Listing Listing Last Updated Appeared in Search Listing Detail Views BizBuySell EDGE Know the True Market Value Before You Make an Offer Get valuation data to negotiate with confidence. 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Why we like it

Earnings quality is strong for the category: $1.35M SDE on $8.1M revenue is a 16.6% margin, and the majority of that revenue comes from insurance-funded claims rather than discretionary consumer spending. Water, fire, and storm losses happen regardless of the economy, so the demand engine does not turn off in a downturn.
The moat is relationship-based and hard to replicate quickly. The business has spent nearly a decade building standing with insurance adjusters, referral partners, and national managed-repair programs, plus it holds an exclusive franchise territory. New entrants cannot simply buy their way onto carrier preferred-vendor lists overnight.
Restoration is one of the more durable home-services verticals because the customer rarely delays the work and rarely shops on price when a claim is open. Growth avenues are concrete: expanding commercial accounts, adding reconstruction capacity, deepening carrier programs, and pushing self-pay work through financing.
The operator advantage is real: an experienced management team already runs day-to-day operations while the owner works only 25 hours a week. That means a buyer can step into a semi-absentee structure or, alternatively, unlock upside by going full-time and driving the growth levers the current owner has left on the table.
The asset base is clean and included. The sale carries a debt-free fleet of work vehicles, professional restoration equipment, warehouse inventory, and $500K in FF&E, so the buyer is not walking into deferred capex or a fleet financing overhang on day one.

How to improve it

Audit and expand the carrier program relationships in the first 90 days. Map which national managed-repair and preferred-vendor programs the business currently participates in versus what is available in the territory, then apply to the ones it is missing to widen the claim funnel without added marketing spend.
Build out reconstruction capacity to capture the full claim value. Many restoration operators leave the rebuild portion on the table and refer it out; bringing more reconstruction in-house captures higher-ticket work per claim and improves margin on jobs already coming through the door.
Launch a structured self-pay and financing program for non-insurance work. Offering financing on out-of-pocket restoration and remediation projects opens a revenue stream that is not dependent on carrier approvals and typically carries stronger margins than managed-repair pricing.
Systematize commercial account development. Residential claims are episodic, but commercial and property-management accounts can generate repeat volume; assign a dedicated business development role (potentially the exiting seller, who offered to stay on in that capacity) to sign multi-property clients.
Tighten job-costing and estimating discipline. Restoration profitability lives and dies on accurate estimates and labor tracking; implement or upgrade estimating software and per-job margin reporting to catch scope creep and underbilled supplements before they erode cash flow.
Penetrate the underserved pockets of the exclusive territory. The listing flags underserved areas within the existing franchise territory; targeted local referral outreach and adjuster relationships in those zip codes can grow revenue with no incremental territory cost.
Reduce single-point-of-failure risk on the management team. Document standard operating procedures and cross-train key roles so the business is not dependent on one or two managers, which also makes the eventual resale cleaner and de-risks the semi-absentee model.

Diligence notes

Scrutinize insurance carrier concentration. The listing says the majority of work comes from carrier relationships and referral partners; determine what percentage of revenue flows from the top one to three carriers or programs, since losing a preferred-vendor slot could materially dent revenue.
Validate the semi-absentee claim and the depth of the management team. Confirm exactly what the owner does in those 25 hours a week, who covers estimating, sales, and operations, and whether the team stays post-close. If key managers walk, the 4.45x multiple looks expensive fast.
Verify the franchise agreement terms and transfer conditions. Review the remaining franchise term, royalty and marketing fee structure, territory exclusivity, renewal rights, and any franchisor approval or transfer fees required to close, since these directly affect go-forward economics.
Confirm the health of receivables and claim supplement collections. Insurance restoration work often carries slow pay and disputed supplements; review AR aging, average days to collect, and write-off history to ensure the reported SDE reflects cash actually collected.
Break down the reason for sale and quantify seller dependency. The owner cites personal health, which is credible, but confirm no customer or referral relationships are personal to the seller. Nail down the specifics of the offered transition and business development involvement in writing.
Inspect the fleet, equipment, and lease. Verify the debt-free fleet and $500K FF&E are in working condition and titled clean, and review the remaining term, rate, and renewal options on the 25,000-square-foot facility lease since a rent reset could compress margins.

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